X’s Grok chatbot got it wrong: Planned Parenthood does commit 1000 abortions daily

Grok, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot system founded by Elon Musk and developed by xAI for X, recently disputed a claim from Live Action founder and president Lila Rose that “Planned Parenthood aborts 1,000 babies every day” — despite the corporation’s own annual report showing that this average is accurate.

In its most recent annual report for 2022-23, Planned Parenthood boasted a “year of moving mountains,” with a record high 392,715 abortions, while clients decreased — and taxpayer funding hit nearly $700 million.

What is Grok ?

The Grok AI chatbot “partner[s] closely with X Corp” to bring AI “technology to more than 500 million users of the X app,” xAI claimed.

Live Action News interacted with Grok asking how the chatbot differed from X’s Community Notes. The chatbot responded that Grok utilizes “real-time information from the X platform” and “Grok engages users through direct interaction, potentially educating or informing them about various topics.”

However, the Grok chatbot also admitted that Grok “can potentially spread misinformation if its data or training leads to incorrect answers, though updates and corrections can be made by xAI,” and Grok “might not always have the most up-to-date or contextually accurate information due to the nature of AI data processing.”

A separate interaction (see image below) with the Grok chatbot stated that “Grok has been noted for its potential biases, reflecting those of its developers or the data it’s trained on, which can sometimes lead to misinformation or controversial answers. It’s designed to be less ‘woke’ and more straightforward, which can be both its strength and weakness depending on the context.” It also stated that Grok is “not primarily a fact-checking tool” but “can be used to find out more about the context of a post or verify information to some extent, but it lacks the community-driven verification process of Community Notes.”

“Each system has its strengths in addressing information quality on social media. Grok offers an AI-driven, real-time response capability, while Community Notes provides a human touch to content moderation, leveraging collective intelligence. The integration of both could potentially offer a more robust approach to managing misinformation, where AI like Grok could suggest notes, but the community would validate them. This analysis is based on the understanding of these tools from available information and posts found on X,” the Grok chatbot wrote.

Grok is Misinformed on Planned Parenthood

An X post published on Lila Rose’s account stated, “Planned Parenthood aborts 1000 babies every day And gets $700 MILLION every year in tax dollars. Defund Planned Parenthood NOW!”

As you can see from the image above, there is an XI link attached below the post asking, “How accurate is the abortion statistic?” Clicking on the claim reveals a flawed refutation of Rose’s statements. Grok first cites Planned Parenthood’s former “special affiliate,” the Guttmacher Institute, claiming Planned Parenthood “provides about 35% of abortions in the United States,” not “1000 daily as stated” by Rose.

Grok also cited the CDC, which as Live Action News previously documented, only collects abortion data from a limited number of states and therefore underreports abortions by hundreds of thousands annually. Grok then summarized that “The claim of 1000 abortions per day by Planned Parenthood seems to be an exaggeration when compared with the statistical data provided by reliable sources.”

Grok, however, is wrong — and this is very easy to prove by looking at Planned Parenthood’s own annual report.

Did Rose “Exaggerate” or was Grok Wrong?

The latest national data from Guttmacher on abortion shows Planned Parenthood commits approximately 40% (not 35%) of U.S. abortions. In 2023, the latest data available Guttmacher Institute recorded 1,037,000 abortions nationally.

In questioning Rose’s claim about Planned Parenthood’s abortions, Grok failed to look at Planned Parenthood itself as a “reliable source.” Planned Parenthood’s own annual report reveals that it committed 392,715 abortions in 2023.

If we divide that number (392,715) by 365 days, we get an average of 1,076 abortions per day — proving Rose did not exaggerate — and in fact, she was conservative in rounding down to a 1,000 daily estimate.

After a slight pushback tagging Grok, its founder Elon Musk, and X, Grok updated its response to state that Rose’s tweet was “not directly sourced or verified” — while admitting Planned Parenthood does publish the data in their annual report.

“The accuracy of this specific figure would require detailed data from Planned Parenthood or reliable external sources, which isn’t provided here. Therefore the accuracy cannot be confirmed based on the given context,” Grok wrote just hours later.

Hmm — like this detailed data from Planned Parenthood? Neither the Guttmacher nor CDC sources were “provided” in Rose’s tweet, either, but Grok somehow managed to locate that (inaccurate) information.

Grok Chatbot Tags Another Live Action Post with Loaded Question

A separate Grok XI tag was shown in a Live Action X post that called on President Donald Trump to “shut down Planned Parenthood.” In this case, the AI’s bias seemed even more obvious, listing the question, “What are defunding’s broader impacts?”

The Live Action post was tagged with three linked responses by Grok’s chatbot, detailed below.

Grok Link Asked: What are defunding’s broader impacts?

Grok wrote (emphases added):

• Defunding Planned Parenthood could lead to reduced access to reproductive health services, impacting low-income women and communities disproportionately.

• It might result in increased health care disparities, as government-funded programs have historically aimed to bridge gaps in reproductive health services.

• Public sector spending on health care might decrease, potentially leading to increases in taxes or borrowing to compensate, affecting household disposable income.

• The removal of funding could force Planned Parenthood to close facilities, limiting access to services like contraception, STI testing, and cancer screenings.

• There might be a shift in public health policy focus, potentially redirecting funds towards alternative health initiatives like adoption services.

Despite the fact that Planned Parenthood received record funding in 2023 ($700 million — with 34% of it coming from taxpayers), its affiliates have begun shutting down facilities of their own accord — a process that seems to occur every handful of years or so within Planned Parenthood. Patients have been plummeting over the past decade at Planned Parenthood, and just 2% of women of reproductive age utilize Planned Parenthood for its services.

As Planned Parenthood’s clients, facilities, and real health services have decreased (with the exception of abortion) Live Action News has documented that Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), which offer multiple services for both men and women while remaining free of the controversy of abortion, have increased location sites and patients served over the years.

Over the past decade (from 2012-2013 to 2022-2023), while actual health care services at Planned Parenthood were on the decrease, taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood rose over 29%, from $540.6 million to nearly $700 million. In addition, during this same time frame, Planned Parenthood’s abortions also increased over 20%, from 327,166 to 392,715 — the highest number of abortions reported by the corporation. In fact, within the past 25 years or so, Planned Parenthood abortions have increased nearly 100%, from 197,070 (2000-01) to 392,715 (2022-23).

This obviously differs from what the Grok chatbot wrote.

Grok Successfully Noted Planned Parenthood’s Aid to Abusers

Lila Rose also published an X thread discussing the fact that Planned Parenthood had failed to report child sexual abuse. Because Grok also collects data from X users, the chatbot correctly responded to a different question linked to Live Action’s post, summarizing horrific criminal cases.

Grok wrote:

• Planned Parenthood staff at multiple facilities were willing to aid child sex traffickers by advising on how to keep abuse discreet.

• In cases like Edgar Ramirez, Planned Parenthood performed abortions and implanted an IUD without reporting the abuse, which was only revealed when the child reported it to the police.

• For Kevon Walker’s victim, Planned Parenthood was visited three times for pregnancies within six months, with no report to CPS until the third pregnancy.

• Timothy Smith took his stepdaughter for an abortion at Planned Parenthood, where staff did not inquire about the pregnancy’s cause, and the abuse continued until reported to her mother.

• John Haller, a soccer coach, impersonated the victim’s brother during a visit to Planned Parenthood, where suspected abuse was not reported to authorities.

Sex Abuse Cover Up at Planned Parenthood - Recorded Cases

Read more horrific cases here.

Grok Added Completely Unrelated Information

Inexplicably, Grok also chose to address the recent removal of the Biden-era HHS website ReproductiveRights.gov, claiming:

• The removal of the Department of Health and Human Services’ reproductive rights website has left the public without access to a government resource that provided information on reproductive health.

• Advocates are concerned about losing access to crucial information on government websites due to this removal.

• The shutdown of this site has potentially impacted the availability of information on obtaining abortions, as it was previously a source for such details.

First, the removal of this website had zero to do with what Live Action originally tweeted, so why this was linked under Live Action’s post is unclear. Second, the information was heavily biased in favor of abortion. Third, the Health Resources Services Administration website has a search tool to locate nearby Federally Qualified Health Centers through the Health Resources Services Administration website.

“Grok leverages the 𝕏 platform to understand what’s happening in the world in real time. We recently launched two additional features to enhance this experience even further: web search and citations. Now Grok draws upon posts from 𝕏 and webpages from the broader internet to provide timely and accurate answers to your queries. We also added citations, so you can easily dive deeper into a source to learn more or verify the information provided by Grok,” Grok stated online.

Grok.com will compete with AI rivals “ChatGPT” as well as Google’s “Gemini” and allow users to access Grok without a Twitter “X” sign in.

Given that the new AI platforms and bots are relying on social posts and web information, it is now more important than ever to share Live Action’s and Live Action News’ pro-life content as often as possible.

Tell President Trump, RFK, Jr., Elon, and Vivek:

Stop killing America’s future. Defund Planned Parenthood NOW!