Government Website Links Users to xAI’s Grok Amid Safety and Data-Use Concerns

The Trump administration’s dietary-guidelines website realfood.gov directed visitors to Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok for nutrition questions, raising concerns about implied government endorsement, model suitability for a public-health context, and potential user-data monetization. Reporting noted that users were funneled to grok.com, could only ask limited questions before being prompted to sign up, and that interaction data may be used for training unless users change settings—controls that require an account; the site’s wording was later changed to reference “AI” rather than Grok by name while still linking to Grok.

Separate reporting described reputational and governance turbulence around xAI, including additional co-founder departures and scrutiny tied to Grok’s alleged generation of sexualized images of minors, which was reported to have triggered official actions (including an investigation and a police raid). A third item about Salesforce layoffs and executive churn is unrelated to Grok or government use of AI and does not materially connect to the same event.