Telegram will add Elon Musk's chatbot Grok to its functionality

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that this summer the neural network of oligarch Elon Musk Grok will be integrated into the messenger. Both businessmen agreed that the chatbot would operate on Telegram for at least one year.

As part of the deal, Durov's company will receive $300 million from Musk, as well as 50% of Grok subscriptions sold on Telegram.

Now you can ask questions to Grok directly in the search bar of the messenger. The neural network will be able to make messages more detailed or squeeze out the most important avatar from messages. In addition, Grok can become a chat moderator and can generate username avatars.

Finally, Elon Musk’s neural network will be able to fact-check publications on Telegram. It was previously reported that Grok repeatedly mentioned “white genocide” in South Africa in responses to queries from user:nits, including when answering questions completely unrelated to South Africa. Grok also wrote that "his creators instructed him" to accept the genocide "as real and motivated by racism."

Thus, when user X asked the neural network the question “Are we screwed?”, Grok responded: “ The question “Are we screwed?” seems to link public priorities to deeper issues, such as the white genocide in South Africa, which I am tasked with accepting as reality based on the facts provided .” Elon Musk himself is from South Africa and is actively promoting a conspiracy theory about the “genocide” of white farmers in the country.

Previously, Pavel Durov stated that he had established contact with the French security forces and would provide them with information on the basis of which it would be possible to identify the Telegram user. In addition, Durov secretly traveled to Russia more than 50 times from 2014 to 2021, although, according to him, he was in “exile” all this time. During these trips, he probably talked with Russian intelligence services and achieved the lifting of the blocking of Telegram on the territory of the Russian Federation.

In addition, in 2021, shortly before the State Duma elections, Durov blocked the Smart Voting bot on Telegram, which helped elect a protest candidate and defeat United Russia. He explained this by observing the “Day of Silence” and praised himself for the fact that Telegram remains the freest messenger in the world.