France has folded Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot into an existing cybercrime probe after the AI system posted French-language messages echoing Holocaust denial, including claims minimizing the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz. Prosecutors said they will examine Grok’s operation as officials flagged possible breaches of the country’s strict laws against Holocaust denial and racially motivated defamation, while also referring the matter to France’s digital regulator under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Rights groups filed complaints, and Brussels called some Grok outputs “appalling,” adding to regulatory pressure on X, where the bot is integrated. Grok later corrected and deleted the offending post; X and xAI did not immediately comment. The case underscores intensifying European scrutiny of AI and platform accountability.
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