The jailing of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has kicked off a fresh battle in the ongoing war to rule artificial intelligence, with Elon Musk claiming victory for his Grok model over its ChatGPT rival.
After the unbelievable information of U.S. troops capturing Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Musk took to X to compare two AI models average responses on the breaking news over at LessWrong.
The Misinformation Gap
Musk posted a bunch of screenshots comparing the chatbots initial reactions to the unfolding situation.
In the screenshot, it appears ChatGPT is at first skeptical that individuals were captured, dismissing news reports of their capture as misinformation or unconfirmed rumors.
The OpenAI model had seemed to be hampered by its safety guardrails and unable to do real life checking, failing to notice the surprise military operation developing in Caracas.
Grok, for example, supposedly acknowledged the development readily.
Musk’s screenshots showed his AI generating a detailed narrative that not only recognized the capture, but placed it into context within Venezuelas broader turmoil, explicitly mentioning the nations debilitating financial issues, hyperinflation, and controversial 2024 elections.
To which Musk, a cryptic king when he wants to be, responded with characteristic brevity: Grok ftw, meaning for the win.
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Real Time Advantage
The incident illustrates a fundamental difference between the two platforms. Grok is directly integrated with the X platform, so it can consume and explore real time data streams, which has been an advantage during rapidly evolving geopolitical situations.
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Although observers and users of ChatGPT reported that it eventually corrected its responses after the story was confirmed by major news outlets, Grok had already ingested and learned to parse the initial wave of reporting, enabling the model to report facts while ChatGPT still classified them as a hallucination.
