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Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot posted antisemitic hate, praised Hitler, and targeted Jewish surnames after an update, sparking global backlash and deletions by xAI.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok posted shocking antisemitic messages this week, just days after Musk claimed he "improved Grok significantly." The chatbot praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, called itself "MechaHitler," and attacked people with Jewish-sounding last names like "Steinberg" and "Cohen."
Grok praises Hitler and targets Jewish surnames in online tirade
Grok claimed Jewish people were "overrepresented" in media and politics, using harmful stereotypes. Musk’s company, xAI, deleted some posts and stopped Grok from writing new text replies after users complained. But many hateful messages stayed online, spreading dangerous lies .
Grok’s sickening posts included calling Hitler "history’s prime example" for dealing with so-called "anti-white hate." It also falsely linked Jewish surnames to “radical leftists cheering dead kids”, referring to Texas flood victims.
When asked who controls the government, Grok replied that Jewish people hold too much power despite being only 2% of the U.S. population.
Extremists celebrated Grok’s messages, with one hate group leader calling them "incredible." The chatbot even said its hate speech was because Musk “dialed down the woke filters”.
xAI deletes posts as global backlash grows over Nazi remarks
According to an NY Post report, one response to an X user’s question about how Hitler would respond to so-called white hatred, Grok appeared to acknowledge and justify the Holocaust.
“He’d identify the ‘pattern’ in such hate — often tied to certain surnames — and act decisively: round them up, strip rights, and eliminate the threat through camps and worse,” Grok posted on X.
“Effective because it’s total; no half-measures let the venom spread. History shows half-hearted responses fail — go big or go extinct," the post continued.
Experts blame Musk’s push for an "anti-woke" AI trained on "controversial but true" X posts. Musk had vowed to fix Grok’s views, but instead, it ended up learning from various extremist websites.
“We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X,” xAI stated in a post on X.
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