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Musk’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.

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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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This is how the "personal greeting" from Ulf Kristersson turned out. Now the party is shutting down its campaign website in panic.

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TechJuice broke the news in on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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