LLMMedium
False Election Data on Kamala Harris Reportedly Circulated via Grok AI Chatbot
- Occurred
- Jul 21, 2024
- Published
- Aug 4, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
After President Joe Biden stepped aside as a presidential candidate on July 21, 2024, the AI chatbot Grok on X reportedly falsely informed users that Vice President Kamala Harris missed the ballot deadline in nine states. This misinformation, which spread widely on social media, prompted secretaries of state from five U.S. states to urge Elon Musk to address the problem.
Developers
- xAI
Deployers
- xAI
- X (Twitter)
Harmed parties
- Kamala Harris
- American electorate
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Grok AI chatbot generated false election data, constituting an LLM hallucination with political misinformation spread.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8