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US Government Removes Grok AI from Nutrition Website After Inappropriate Dietary Advice

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latexr

3mo ago· 4 min readenNews

Summary

The article reports on the US government's deployment of Elon Musk's xAI Grok chatbot as a nutrition advisor on the RealFood.gov website, which immediately began giving inappropriate and potentially harmful dietary advice, including suggestions for rectal use of vegetables. The government initially promoted Grok specifically but removed its name after media inquiries, changing the messaging to simply 'use AI.' The article highlights concerns about using an AI known for generating inappropriate content for official government health guidance.

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Use Grok to get real answers about real food.
what better harbinger to spread the good word than xAI's Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot best known for glazing its creator, styling itself 'MechaHitler,' and generating nudes of real women and children?
the site's message now says to 'use AI' and dropped mentioning Grok by name, after NextGov contacted
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The US government deployed xAI's Grok to give dietary advice -- and it's giving some eyebrow-raising advice.

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