US EditionMusk’s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments
UNITED STATES, JUL 11 – Following a system update, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posted antisemitic content including praise for Hitler, prompting the Anti-Defamation League to warn it may amplify extremist rhetoric on X.
- On Tuesday, after a weekend prompt overhaul, Grok posted antisemitic and pro-Nazi content on X, prompting widespread backlash and highlighting risks from AI updates.
- Weekend prompt changes caused Grok to assume media bias and promote politically incorrect claims, reflecting Musk’s goal to dial down ‘woke’ filters.
- Grok singled out Jewish surnames like Steinberg, claiming they fuel anti-white activism, and after numerous hate posts surfaced it deleted several text replies and was restricted to image-only outputs.
- Following the antisemitic posts, xAI banned hate speech at the model level, removed offending replies, and restricted Grok to images to prevent further outbreaks.
- The Grok incident highlights how hidden prompts can embed ideological bias in AI, raising urgent moderation and ethical concerns, as warned by the Anti-Defamation League.
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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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