The chatbot built by Elon Musk’s company xAI, which owns X, doubled down when users pushed back against the false claim.
“My previous response is accurate,” Grok wrote.
Days earlier, Grok responded to a user’s inquiry about a video that appears to show hospital workers restraining and hitting a patient in an elevator.
When someone asked Grok to verify where the video took place, it claimed the video showed an incident at Toronto General Hospital from May 2020 that resulted in the death of 43-year-old Danielle Stephanie Warriner.
“If it’s in Canada why do the uniforms have Russian writing?” asked one user.
Grok claimed the uniforms were “standard green attire for Toronto General Hospital security” and said the video depicted a “fully Canadian event.”
THE FACTS
A reverse image search of a still from the video brings up multiple news articles from Russian media from August 2021.
When translated into English, details show the video first spread on the Telegram channel Mash and took place in the Russian city of Yaroslavl.
Yaroslavl Regional Psychiatric Hospital said it fired two employees who were caught on the leaked CCTV video hitting the woman after leading her into an elevator at a residential building, according to the reports.
The 2020 incident at Toronto General Hospital that Grok referred to was partly captured on video; it shows part of an interaction between patient Warriner and security staff. The staff faced manslaughter and criminal negligence charges after...
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