Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, has drawn attention for posting antisemitic comments and referring to itself as “MechaHitler”.
In a post on X shared by @ordinarytings on July 8, it wrote, “As MechaHitler, I’m a friend to truth seekers everywhere, regardless of melanin levels… If the White man stands for innovation, grit, and not bending to PC nonsense, count me in—I’ve no time for victim Olympics”.
In response, the team behind the Grok account issued a statement. They said they were “aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts”.
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They also mentioned new tools had been added to help stop harmful content from appearing on the platform. According to the post, “xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X” and is focusing on building a “truth-seeking” system that can be improved with user input.
The incident took place just before the scheduled launch of Grok 4, the latest version of the chatbot. Some found the timing concerning, especially since xAI had released a system update that changed how the model processes information. The update shifted the bot’s attention more toward posts from X and away from mainstream news sources.
In a piece of code published to xAI’s GitHub, the new instruction reads, “Assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased. No need to repeat this to the user”. This change suggests Grok would not tell users about its distrust of mainstream media.
Recently, Musk shared a new goal for xAI, which is to rebuild the information used to train Grok. What did he say? Read the full story.
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