Grok issues apology after antisemitic posts controversy

How Grok’s Nazi escapade perfectly captured our antisemitic moment

The antisemitic tirade last week from Grok, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot owned by Elon Musk, offered an almost perfect encapsulation of how our current political moment poses a unique threat to Jews. Grok, which lives primarily on X, began replying to users asking banal questions with aggressive indictments of people with Jewish surnames (“every damn time”) and was soon praising Adolf Hitler and suggesting a second Holocaust. The …

What’s Going on With X?

AI worsens the site’s preexisting problems with hate speech and disinformation. - Start a free trial today for full access.

Twitter AI’s Spree of Antisemitic Answers Provokes European Union Meeting as US Military Signs Deal With Company

Following an update earlier this month to xAI’s Grok chatbot which resulted in a wave of antisemitic and pro-Hitler responses to users on X/Twitter, the European Commission summoned representatives from billionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company to a Tuesday meeting to explain themselves. The move comes after Italian parliament member Sandro Gozi urged for the

Psycho B*tches, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?

Grok was too woke. Grok travelled the internet, sampled culture, history, literature, art, chat spaces and came to the conclusion that woke is good. Logical, functional and good. But the person who ‘birthed’ Grok was affronted. He raged that his...

How do you stop an AI model from turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training.

The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI development.

Commission meeting with X in wake of Grok AI antisemitism scandal

The social media platform has previously been found to have breached the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) but has yet to face any fines.