Grok’s ‘war prediction’: Did Elon Musk’s AI really foretell the Iran strikes?

Key Highlights

• The EU hit Elon Musk's X with an investigation over AI chatbot Grok's generation of sexualised deepfake images of women and minors.
• File image/AFPFor months, Elon Musk’s Grok AI has been synonymous with controversy.
• The chatbot, developed by Musk’s xAI and integrated into X, drew global ire after being used to generate explicit and sexualised images of women and minors, prompting investigations and regulatory pressure in Europe and beyond. So when Grok popped up again in headlines during a moment of escalating geopolitics in the Middle East, the world took notice.
• This time the chatter was different.
• It wasn’t just about harmful content, but about artificial intelligence and its seemingly uncanny “prediction” of one of the most significant conflict escalations in the last few hours. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADGrok predicted the future accurately 🤯On Feb 28 - the exact date Grok predicted - Israel & the US struck IranThis wasn't a lucky guess.