didn’t ). Screenshots show a selection of the falsehoods people shared when responding to Elon Musk's request for "divisive facts" that he planned to use when training the Grok chatbot. (Screenshots from X) Experts told PolitiFact that Grok’s training — including how the model is told to respond — and the material it aggregates likely played a role in its spew of hate speech. "All models are ‘aligned’ to some set of ideals or preferences," said Jeremy Blackburn, a computing professor at Binghamton University. These types of chatbots are reflective of their creators, he said. Alex Mahadevan, an artificial intelligence expert at the Poynter Institute, said Grok was partly trained on X posts, which can be rampant with