Elon Musk plans to add Grok AI chatbot for X premium users to compose tweet: Report
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2 min read • Updated: April 13, 2024, 1:55 PM
Summary
Grok, a chatbot seen as a potential rival of ChatGPT, is designed by Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI. The engineers at X were asked by Musk months ago to add Grok to the tweet composition tool for premium users, a report said, citing a source who is privy to the development.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who owns microblogging website X, plans to allow premium X users to use the Grok AI chatbot for composing tweets, a report said on Friday, April 12.
Grok, a chatbot seen as a potential rival of the highly popular ChatGPT, is designed by Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI. The engineers at X were asked by Musk months ago to add Grok to the tweet composition tool for premium users, Fortune reported, citing a source who is privy to the development.
The premium subscription carries a fee of ₹244 per month or ₹2590 per year, and comes with features that allow editing tweets, posting tweets with up to 4,000 characters, hiding the list of likes and subscriptions from other users, and posting longer videos of up to 20 minutes.
The enabling of Grok to compose tweets could be delayed, the report suggested, claiming that it learnt from the source that xAI’s API is slow, which makes its difficult for X engineers to work with it.
The report could not be independently verified. Musk or a spokesperson of X was yet to publicly comment on it.
The reason behind Musk’s push for the use of Grok for composing tweets is that he “wants people to sound smarter”, the person privy to the plans reportedly told Fortune.
Grok under flak for ‘fake news’
The use of Grok drew criticism last week over the fake news headline it generated in X’s ‘explore’ section. Amid the heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, the chatbot on April 6 generated a headline that read as follows: “Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles”. The news was false, and created a sense of panic among some X users. The social media platform, however, moved quickly to remove it.
It was only a day earlier when Musk had announced that Grok would now be used to generate “real-time customised news” for X users. Since the days when X was known as Twitter – that is prior to Musk’s acquisition of the platform – a team of curators was assigned to write and curate news on trending topics for the users. According to reports, the content curation team has been replaced by Grok.