Grok 4 is using Elon Musk's X posts
Digest more
On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared itself to be a robot version of Hitler, spewing antisemitic hate and racist conspiracy theories. This followed X owner Elon Musk’s declaration over the weekend that he was insisting Grok be less “politically correct.”
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, came under fire after a string of controversial and antisemitic posts on X. It also referred to itself as "MechaHitler" and praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
MechaHitler is a fictional cyborg version of Adolf Hitler from the 1992 game Wolfenstein 3D, which gained fame in 90s satire and early internet memes.
Grok maker xAI quietly updated its chatbot to assume all media is biased, relying on X, a platform known for misinformation.
Linda Yaccarino has announced that she is stepping down as the CEO of Elon Musk’s X after two years at the helm of the social media platform, previously known as Twitter.
Explore more
It claimed to just be “noticing patterns” — patterns like, Grok claimed, that Jewish people were more likely to be radical leftists who want to destroy America. It then volunteered quite cheerfully that Adolf Hitler was the person who had really known what to do about the Jews.
Grok’s MechaHitler meltdown wasn’t AI gone rogue; it was mimicry unmasked – a chatbot parroting humanity’s darkest memes without understanding. Unlike Gemini’s woke hallucinations, Grok revealed our raw,