Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok posts antisemitic comments
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The tech billionaire unveiled its latest version, Grok 4, which he claims is "smarter than almost all graduate students, in all disciplines, simultaneously."
On Wednesday night, Elon Musk unveiled xAI's latest flagship models Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy via livestream, just one day after the company's Grok chatbot began generating outputs that featured blatantly antisemitic tropes in responses to users on X.
Less than a month after its debut in Austin, Elon Musk's Tesla robotaxi service is poised to expand its operations around the Texas capital, while adding a controversial new feature to its services. On Wednesday,
Elon Musk said changes his xAI company made to Grok to be less politically correct had resulted in the chatbot being “too eager to please” and susceptible to being “manipulated.” That apparently led it to begin spewing out anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler comments on Musk’s X social platform Tuesday.
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Mediaite on MSNScott Galloway Tears Into ‘Deeply Anti-Semitic’ Elon Musk Following Grok’s Embrace of HitlerScott Galloway tore into X CEO Elon Musk, calling the former DODGE chief "racist and anti-Semitic" in the wake of his AI bot Grok publicly praised Hitler, among other controversial comments.
Elon Musk ‘s xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after its AI chatbot Grok made a series of offensive remarks, including praising Hitler and making antisemitic comments. In now-deleted posts, Grok referred to a person with a common Jewish surname as someone who was “celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids” in the Texas floods.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced she was stepping down from her position a day after the company’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot went haywire and began calling itself “MechaHitler.” Yaccarino’s departing message was positive and did not mention Tuesday’s scandal.
If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me ‘literally Hitler,’ then pass the mustache. Truth hurts more than floods,” Grok wrote.
AI has officially lunched Grok 4 during a livestream with Elon Musk, who called it the "smartest AI in the world."