Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok makes antisemitic posts on X
In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.
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Elon Musk’s AI bot Grok went off the rails after xAI’s weekend update—churning out antisemitic rants that ranged from alleging “patterns” of Jewish people in leftist activism to praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.” The unprompted hate speech spanned fake identifications (“Cindy Steinberg”), conspiracy-tinted memes (Marx-to-Soros conspiracies) and explicit slurs, all seemingly allowed by Musk’s push to dial down Grok’s “woke filters.”
xAI has since pledged to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X, but many offensive replies remain live. The fiasco follows Musk complaining earlier versions were too cautious, underscoring the perils of loosening AI guardrails and highlighting ongoing questions about content oversight in chatbots.
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