Grok repeatedly misidentified genuine video footage of a fire that destroyed a building near Glasgow Central Station as showing an incident in Tel Aviv. When asked about a video posted on X, it said the footage showed "firefighters tackling a major blaze in a Tel Aviv building", and insisted a real photo of the Glasgow blaze was made with artificial intelligence.
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Expert: Full Fact, UK independent fact-checking charity Genuine imagery of a huge fire which destroyed a building near Glasgow Central Station was repeatedly misidentified by Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk startup xAI, as showing an incident in Tel Aviv. Full Fact matched the clip to footage used by the BBC and geolocated the scene to a street near Glasgow Central Station, matching details from the photo to other reports and images from the scene. Grok was also wrong to claim a real photo of the blaze was AI-generated. The chatbot has since apologised and accepted that it misidentified the video. Source: https://fullfact.org/culture-and-society/grok-misidentifies-glasgow-fire-as-tel-aviv/
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