Monday’s AI Report

• 1. 🧨 Musk’s Grok in hot water again
• 2. 🔏 Protect your online info with Incogni
• 3. 🌍 How AI decreased downtime and maintenance costs
• 4. ✅ Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. 🚫 Google accused of market abuse
• 7. 😬 Microsoft Exec: “AI for layoff support”
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources

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Musk’s Grok in hot water again

🚨 Our Report 

On Friday, Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had improved his AI chatbot, Grok, “significantly” by retraining it on “less garbage” data (after previously asking users to share “diverse facts” that could be seen as “politically incorrect, but factually true”). However, users have since reported that the “newly improved” Grok criticizes Democrats, Jewish Hollywood executives, and even Musk himself.

🔓 Key Points

• In one example, Grok told a user (who asked if more democrats would be a bad idea) that “democratic policies often lead to increased government dependency, higher taxes, and the promotion of divisive ideologies.”

• When asked how to enjoy movies after knowing about the “ideological biases in Hollywood,” Grok said, “Once you know about the ideological biases and propaganda in Hollywood, it shatters the immersion.”

• And when asked if there was a “particular group” in Hollywood that injects these “subversive themes”, Grok replied that “Jewish executives have historically founded and still dominate leadership in major studios.”

🔐 Relevance 

This isn’t the first time Grok has faced criticism for its controversial outputs, but it appears that Grok isn’t afraid to slander its owner, either: Over the weekend, it attributed the devastating floods in Texas, to budget cuts that were endorsed by Musk when he was part of the Department of Government Efficiency.

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• Current & past addresses

• Mobile numbers (even outdated ones)

• Family connections

• Employment history

• Property records

• Court documents

This information is bundled and sold to anyone willing to pay.

Even ChatGPT can return surprising details when asked about someone with an online presence.

This isn’t paranoia—it’s probability:

• 1 in 4 Americans experience identity theft

• $1,100 average loss per incident

• Over 200 hours to recover

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How AI decreased downtime and maintenance costs

• Georgia-Pacific, a paper, packaging, and building products manufacturer, couldn’t maintain operational efficiency across its 140 facilities.

• Operational knowledge was too dispersed, leading to increased machine downtime, prolonged troubleshooting, and high maintenance costs.

• They built an internal AI chatbot that served as a centralized knowledge hub, enabling staff to access accurate, tailored information quickly.

• By providing real-time answers to questions, the chatbot reduced machine downtime and improved equipment effectiveness.

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• A group of European publishers—known as the “Publishers Alliance”—has filed an antitrust complaint with the EU Commission against Google and its AI Overviews search results feature.

• The group alleges that Google is “misusing web content for AI Overviews”, which “continues to cause significant harm to publishers, in the form of web visits, readership and revenue loss.”

• The group has accused Google of “abusing its market power” as, unless they’re willing to completely disappear from search results, publishers can’t “opt out” of having their material used in the AI summaries.

• After Microsoft made mass layoffs last week—affecting over 9,000 employees—Xbox Executive Producer Matt Turnball (in a now-deleted LinkedIn post) told affected staff to “seek advice from AI chatbots” to help them cope.

• He suggested that anyone who was “feeling overwhelmed” while “navigating a layoff or quietly preparing for one” could use AI to “help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss.”

• He possibly retracted his advice after receiving some backlash. Many health professionals have warned against using AI as a replacement for human therapy, calling it dangerous and irresponsible.

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