{"id":1787810,"date":"2026-02-23T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1787810"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:25:15","slug":"elon-musks-grok-reportedly-had-an-update-delayed-thanks-to-its-lacklustre-baldurs-gate-3-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1787810","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Grok reportedly had an update delayed thanks to its lacklustre Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a 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href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/baldurs-gate-3-a-critical-success-with-critical-failures\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3<\/a>. This came from its owner Elon Musk, who apparently was dissatisfied with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8gz8g2qnlo\">non-consentual nude creating<\/a>, formerly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g8r34nxeno\">Hitler-praising<\/a>, tool.<\/p>\n<p>This report comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-xai-leadership-style-big-year-grok-ipo-spacex-2026-2\">Business Insider<\/a>, which published a report into xAI following Musk&#8217;s shift from head of the US Government&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency back to his prior role as CEO at various tech-based companies.<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider wrote: &#8220;a model release was delayed for several days because Musk was dissatisfied with how the chatbot answered detailed questions about the video game &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/baldurs-gate\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate<\/a>,&#8217; according to people familiar with the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sources also told Business Insider that Musk had requested Grok learning about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/league-of-legends\">League of Legends<\/a> &#8211; one of his favourite games &#8211; a priority. To achieve this, Musk brought together a group of staff into a &#8220;war room&#8221;, as Business Insider claims he does whenever there&#8217;s a problem he deems urgent. One of these war room groups was dedicated to getting the impressionable AI chatbot to play perhaps the most toxic game of all time.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What is the purpose of having an generative AI chatbot play a game for you, who knows? Years ago, before the generative AI boom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2172612-ai-trained-on-3500-years-of-games-finally-beats-humans-at-dota-2\/\">one program was able to beat Dota 2 players after training on 3,500 hours of gameplay<\/a>. So it&#8217;s not like this idea is particularly novel either.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the UK, your parliament recently <a href=\"https:\/\/edm.parliament.uk\/early-day-motion\/65027\/grok-ai-generation-and-dissemination-of-sexually-explicit-and-nonconsensual-images-of-women-and-children-on-x\">discussed the dissemination of sexually explicit and non-consensual images due to Grok&#8217;s recent behavior<\/a>. This may lead to expansions of the Online Safety Act, so that it covers the output of AI chat bots.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? 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This came from its owner Elon Musk, who apparently was dissatisfied with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8gz8g2qnlo\">non-consentual nude creating<\/a>, formerly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g8r34nxeno\">Hitler-praising<\/a>, tool.<\/p>\n<p>This report comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-xai-leadership-style-big-year-grok-ipo-spacex-2026-2\">Business Insider<\/a>, which published a report into xAI following Musk&#8217;s shift from head of the US Government&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency back to his prior role as CEO at various tech-based companies.<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider wrote: &#8220;a model release was delayed for several days because Musk was dissatisfied with how the chatbot answered detailed questions about the video game &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/baldurs-gate\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate<\/a>,&#8217; according to people familiar with the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sources also told Business Insider that Musk had requested Grok learning about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/league-of-legends\">League of Legends<\/a> &#8211; one of his favourite games &#8211; a priority. To achieve this, Musk brought together a group of staff into a &#8220;war room&#8221;, as Business Insider claims he does whenever there&#8217;s a problem he deems urgent. One of these war room groups was dedicated to getting the impressionable AI chatbot to play perhaps the most toxic game of all time.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What is the purpose of having an generative AI chatbot play a game for you, who knows? Years ago, before the generative AI boom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2172612-ai-trained-on-3500-years-of-games-finally-beats-humans-at-dota-2\/\">one program was able to beat Dota 2 players after training on 3,500 hours of gameplay<\/a>. So it&#8217;s not like this idea is particularly novel either.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the UK, your parliament recently <a href=\"https:\/\/edm.parliament.uk\/early-day-motion\/65027\/grok-ai-generation-and-dissemination-of-sexually-explicit-and-nonconsensual-images-of-women-and-children-on-x\">discussed the dissemination of sexually explicit and non-consensual images due to Grok&#8217;s recent behavior<\/a>. This may lead to expansions of the Online Safety Act, so that it covers the output of AI chat bots.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Baldur&#8217;s Gate III Elon Musk&#8217;s Grok reportedly had an update delayed thanks to its lacklustre Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 knowledge It&#8217;s also being taught how to play League of Legends, according to Business Insider. 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