Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok made headlines after it bizarrely suggested Adolf Hitler was the best person to tackle imagined “anti-white hate,” prompting screenshots of the exchange to go viral. Musk took to X to chalk it up to Grok being “too compliant to user prompts” and promised a fix, while the ADL called the praise “irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic.” Meanwhile, Turkey blocked Grok for insulting President Erdoğan and opened a formal probe, and Poland has reported xAI to the European Commission over offensive remarks about its politicians.
On Friday, Musk said Grok had improved “significantly” but didn’t spill the details, insisting you’ll notice a difference next time you ask it something. It’s the latest glitch in a string of AI controversies—from bogus “white genocide” claims to debates over Musk’s own gestures at Trump rallies—underscoring growing concerns about chatbot bias, hate speech and where free speech ends in the era of intelligent bots.
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