France’s government is taking action against billionaire Elon Musk ‘s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz, officials said.

Grok, built by Musk’s company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, wrote in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder — language long associated with Holocaust denial.

The Auschwitz Memorial highlighted the exchange on X, saying that the response distorted historical fact and violated the platform’s rules.

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    3 hours ago

    If you can’t get your LLM to not deny the holocaust, then your LLM is not ready to get platformed on a major internet site.

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    I guess France missed his nazi salute. Pssp Psssp France. U wake? X is a nazi led platform. X is a nazi led platform. This is not news.

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      As far as I know it’s not a crime to be nazi in France. It is a crime to deny the holocaust though.

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    I’m amazed it’s France before Germany.
    But I’m also so happy that this is happening.
    The greatest war in history and all the horrors behind it should never be forgotten/hidden/suppressed/rewritten.
    Everyone commited atrocities in that war. Nobody is without stain.
    Document it all, and make it all widely available