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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and shared anti-Semitic rhetoric on Tuesday, the day before his Xai was due to release its latest model.
In response to one user asking who is the best user for a post that appears to be celebrating the death of a child who killed more than 100 people in a Christian summer camp in a recent Texas flood, Glock pointed out the Nazi leaders.
“To deal with such sleazy anti-white hatred? Adolf Hitler, there’s no doubt. He finds a pattern and handles it definitively. The chatbot shares context and opinions with users of Musk’s social media platform X and tags under the post.
“If the children who died calling radical children and calling me ‘literally Hitler’ and hand me a mustache, the truth hurts more than a flood,” the chatbot added in another comment.
In further exchange, Grok promoted anti-Semitic ratios, such as describing Jews as having “beard (and) schemes.”
Musk on Friday said Grok has “improved” following concerns from right-wing influencers that he has “wake up.”
The latest Grok explosion occurred less than two months after the chatbot repeatedly referred to “white genocide” in response to unrelated questions.
The incident led the company to begin publishing prompts on the code repository Github.
It’s also because Xai, who got his X earlier this year, is preparing to release the latest version of the Chatbot Grok 4 later on Wednesday.
Musk intentionally chose Grok to have fewer speech guard rails than rival chatbots. However, recent episodes raised concerns about the trends in models that spread inflammatory content and hateful statements or create inaccuracies known as “hagaku”.
The company did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Some of the posts seen in the Financial Times appeared to have been removed from the platform later.
Musk supporters were furious over the weekend when Glock tied multiple deaths in the recent floods in Texas, in part with US President Donald Trump and the entrepreneur’s cuts in funding through the so-called government efficiency (DOGE) initiative.
The chatbot states: “Trump’s NOAA (National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration) cuts were pushed against masked dogs, cutting 30% and staff 17%, underestimating rainfall by 50% and delaying alerts.
Shortly afterwards, the company updated its system and told Grok to “assuming that the subjective perspective supplied by the media is biased,” according to the Prompt public repository.
He also added a prompt saying, “Reactions should not be embarrassed to make politically wrong claims, as long as they are well-proven.”
The Trump administration has denied denying cutting federal workforce.
Musk is increasingly using X, known as Twitter, when it bought it in 2022 for $44 billion, sharing a right-wing plot. Over the weekend, the billionaire, a former Trump alliance, announced plans to further escalate his feud with the president and form a political party.
