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Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk 's AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation.

In August last year , five state secretaries urged Musk to implement critical changes to Grok after the misleading information generated by the assistant surfaced on social networks ahead of the U.S. election.

Tech companies are exploring ways to reduce reliance on human fact-checkers.

Platforms including X and Meta started embracing the new concept of crowdsourced fact-checking through so-called Community Notes .

However, fact checkers will likely have more work to do with the AI -generated information spreading swiftly.