Five secretaries of state have urged Elon Musk, the owner of X, to address the alleged spread of false information about ballot deadlines in nine states by his social media platform’s Grok AI chatbot.
In a letter to Musk on Aug. 5, Secretaries of State Washington’s Steve Hobbs,  Michigan’s Jocelyn Benson, Minnesota’s Steve Simon, New Mexico’s Maggie Toulouse Oliver, and Pennsylvania’s Al Schmidt said the AI chatbot spread false information about ballot deadlines just hours after President Joe Biden withdrew his reelection bid on July 21.
The officials allege that Grok’s results falsely claimed that “the ballot deadline has passed” for elections in Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington….