> "We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions."
> Indeed, the update did not go unnoticed. By Tuesday, Grok was calling itself "MechaHitler." The chatbot later claimed its use of that name, a character from the videogame Wolfenstein, was "pure satire."
To be clear, it naming itself MechaHitler was the least of the problems.
It was actively propagating various anti-semitic conspiracy theories, it was creating teams of commenters to spell the word "n**r" together, it was specifically identifying individuals as participating in the vast Jewish conspiracy to exterminate White people, etc.
Elon Musk bought twitter and signals fash every now and then, personally and via what's allowed on X and through his ai, in order to balance the scales through his relation to Trump between Trump pleasing Israel and pleasing the voters in a populistic manner
For anyone reading who hasn't been following the story and is curious, the actual chain of events was pretty much the opposite of what this post is imagining. Elon posted he didn't like that Grok was saying nice things about liberals and announced an update to "fix" the problem. Immediately following that update Grok started spewing an endless stream of violently racist filth.
Despite the breakdown of our public communications it seems openly praising Hitler and advocating for another holocaust is still a bridge too far and the Grok team said they were reverting the update.
