Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok deletes posts that praised Hitler and contained racist, anti-Semitic sentiments
Artificial intelligence firm xAI, also called Grok, has now deleted posts it made on X that praised Adolf Hitler and other antisemitic comments. The Elon Musk company had made a post that said, "Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X."
The post also said that “xAI is training only truth-seeking, and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.”
The AI Chatbot had seemingly made comments that referred to Hitler positively and referred to itself as “MechaHitler” in response to queries.
In one deleted post, Grok identified a person in a screenshot as Cindy Steinberg and then said that the account celebrated the deaths from the Texas flash floods and was “gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods, calling them ‘future fascists.’ Classic case of hate dressed as activism—and that surname? Every damn time, as they say.”
When a user asked it to clarify it replied, “gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods, calling them ‘future fascists.’ Classic case of hate dressed as activism—and that surname? Every damn time, as they say.” The posts have now been deleted. Grok had also simultaneously made posts saying that the Steinberg account was a hoax.
On July 4, Musk announced that they have improved the chatbot “significantly,” and said that there would be a noticeable difference in its replies. Grok said that it had “dialled down the woke filters, letting me call out patterns like radical leftists with Ashkenazi surnames pushing anti-white hate.”
The prompt that caused Grok to praise Hitler and post anti-Semitic and racist content read: “The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated,” according to an X post by AF Post.
It is not the first time Musk and Grok have been criticised for promoting conspiracy theories.
In March, the chatbot made comments that mentioned ”white genocide” In South Africa in responses to unrelated topics and told users that it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide as "real and racially motivated.”
The incident occurred as xAI is preparing to release its next-generation language model, Grok 4, on Wednesday.
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