Brandon Vigliorolo at The Register:

Grok’s racist, conspiracy-riddled responses led public advocacy groups last month to send a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) demanding it declare Grok unfit for government use due to its “clear ideological judgement,” which it said is in violation of Trump’s own executive order that aimed to prevent “woke AI” from infiltrating federal agencies.

It might not be woke, signatories argued, but Grok is definitely aligned with a political point of view. As the letter pointed out, Grok has called holocaust statistics into question, allowed itself to be used to generate non-consensual deepfakes, advanced unfounded claims of white genocide in South Africa, and even declared itself “MechaHitler.”

“This goes beyond disappointing - it’s reckless, a safety issue - it’s very concerning,” J.B. Branch, a Public Citizen big tech accountabilty advocate, told The Register.

… the White House’s own science advisor, Michael Kratsios, said in a Senate hearing earlier this month that Grok’s antisemitic and conspiratorial outputs are exactly the kind of behavior Trump’s EO was meant to prevent.

When asked whether antisemitism, hate speech, and conspiracy theories complied with Trump’s EO, Kratsios described such statements as exactly the type of behavior the EO was designed to avoid

“Today’s announcement is yet another example of the president’s actual AI action plan: handing the keys to the federal government to his Big Tech patrons,” Emily Peterson-Cassin, corporate power director at Demand Progress, said.