France has opened an investigation into billionaire Republican financier Elon Musk’s company after his AI chatbot Grok promoted Holocaust denial.

Officials in the French government told the Associated Press that the investigation began after a post circulated showing a Grok response to a user. That response falsely claimed that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were used for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus.”

In reality, the gas chambers were used for the mass murder of prisoners at the camp, who were mostly Jewish people. Historians estimate that around 1.1 million human beings were killed at the camp in less than five years.

After the incorrect response was publicly posted and shared, Grok was changed to respond with historically accurate information—without

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