09/17/24 7:30am Elon Musk’s xAI aims to provide a less restricted A.I. chatbot than rival apps like ChatGPT. Jean Catuffe/GC Images xAI’s Grok-2, Elon Musk’s latest answer to ChatGPT, is making waves and sparking debate. On its website, xAI claims Grok-2 performs better than OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude. However, early adopters have found that the A.I. model’s lack of content moderation and safety guardrails has created harmful, misleading and sometimes legally questionable content. Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter Sign Up use a symbol from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity ( C2PA ), a global standards body certifying media content’s source and history, to mark A.I.-generated images. Musk’s dismissal of these concerns with tweets like “Grok is the most fun A.I. in the world!” has only added fuel to the fire, signaling a lack of urgency in addressing the risks of the technology. Fixing Grok-2 would require a fundamental shift in how xAI approaches A.I. development, legal and tech industry experts say. “One possible solution is for A.I. systems to include embedded metadata or some form of encoding in the outputs to clearly identify them as A.I.-generated,” McCarthy said. In addition, “intellectual property rules will need to evolve to handle the unique challenges that A.I. brings to the table,” he added. “At the same time, we should think about new revenue models—like ways to fairly compensate artists whose work might be used to train these A.I. systems and figuring out how to navigate this changing landscape responsibly.” “To prevent the misuse of A.I. tools like Grok-2, businesses should be taking a proactive approach by implementing comprehensive usage policies that clearly outline acceptable use cases for their technologies,”