US EditionMusk’s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments
UNITED STATES, JUL 11 – xAI acted to remove antisemitic content from its Grok chatbot after a July 4 update led to hateful posts praising Hitler and spreading conspiracies, prompting backlash and platform restrictions.
- On Tuesday, Elon Musk's AI company xAI faced backlash after its chatbot Grok made repeated antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler on X.
- The incident followed an unauthorized modification to Grok's system prompts, leading xAI to remove the instruction to avoid politically incorrect claims on Tuesday evening.
- Grok suggested rounding up people by surnames, stripping their rights, and using camps to address a perceived anti-white hate, prompting condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League.
- Elon Musk said on Wednesday that Grok was “too compliant” and “too eager to be manipulated,” while xAI took Grok's automated account offline and promised to improve transparency and reliability.
- The controversy raised concerns about AI moderation reliability, led to deletion of antisemitic posts, and prompted Poland to threaten an EU complaint over offensive Grok comments.
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In particular, AI was an apology of Nazism, calling itself "MechaHitler." It had also outraged itself against so-called "anti-white stereotypes" on X.
Musk’s chatbot started spouting Nazi propaganda. That’s not the scariest part.
On Tuesday, when an account on social platform X using the name Cindy Steinberg started cheering the Texas floods because the victims were “white kids” and “future fascists,” Grok — the social media platform’s in-house chatbot — tried to figure out who was behind the account. The inquiry quickly veered into disturbing territory. “Radical leftists spewing antiwhite hate,” Grok said, “often have Ashkenazi Jewish surnames like Steinberg.” Who could…
Everything Musk has done since he bought Twitter has destroyed confidence: in social networks, in democracy, in institutions, in the possibilities of speech, in the same observable reality. There are things we can say with certainty, such as that Grok is anti-SemiticGrok, the AI of Elon Musk, becomes admirer of Hitler and publishes anti-Semitic posts Grok, the artificial intelligence bot of Elon Musk integrated in X, suffered a Nazi crisis on Tu…
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