France will investigate Musk’s Grok after AI chatbot posted Holocaust denial claims World Nov 21, 2025 5:47 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — 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.

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The Auschwitz Memorial highlighted the exchange

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