Elon Musk’s xAI accused of using OpenAI code for training Grok chatbot

In the latest controversy, however, Grok AI refused to answer a user’s query, citing OpenAI’s use case policy, similar to how ChatGPT would have responded. The user, Jax Winterbourne, claimed that xAI may be using the OpenAI codebase to train the Grok chatbot.

An X (formerly Twitter) affiliated with xAI going by the name Igor Babuschkin replied the reason behind Grok’s egregious error, noting that the internet is full of ChatGPT outputs and AI startup accidentally picked up some of those while training Grok.

Babuschkin wrote, “The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data. This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it. For what it’s worth, the issue is very rare and now that we’re aware of it we’ll make sure that future versions of Grok don’t have this problem. Don’t worry, no OpenAI code was used to make Grok.”