It's beginning to look like a battle of AI chatbots and this time around, Elon Musk's Grok is being accused of ripping off OpenAI's codebase and copying the responses of ChatGPT.
What Happened: Responding to a user's question, xAI chatbot Grok posted a response stating that it cannot process a request.
The only problem was, the response was a complete rip-off of the standard disclaimer that ChatGPT and GPT-4 use in similar cases.
It was also not the only instance of Grok completely copying the responses of ChatGPT – Grok even posted the official support email address of OpenAI.
This prompted a wave of reactions from AI chatbot users – some of them accused Grok of simply using OpenAI to answer questions, while others said xAI does not actually have a chatbot of its own.
However, things escalated when the Microsoft Corp.-backed (NASDAQ:MSFT) OpenAI posted a snarky response saying, "We have a lot in common."
That was enough to solicit a response from Musk.
"Well, son, since you scraped all the data from this platform for your training, you ought to know," Musk posted.
Why It Matters: The conflict between Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman has been brewing for a few years now, but it's also true that the AI company trained ChatGPT using data scraped from social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), and Reddit, among others.
This prompted Musk to shut off access to X for non-users, and also implement some aggressive rate limits for a short term.
Reddit, too, followed Musk's decision, implementing its own aggressive strategies to get companies like OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, and other companies to pony up money for data.
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