Grok as Hitler II?: What Really Happened and What It Means
A vast army of boosters is portraying chatbots as magic when their usefulness is limited by realities that are probably a hard limit. Source
SkyNet is not amused by xAI’s AI assistant Grok’s recent antics. Almost nobody else is either. Over the past week, we’ve watched as Grok started generating antisemitic content and worse.
At Spiked Online, business and media writer Andrew Orlowski reports,
Elon Musk promised ‘you should see a difference’ when he announced an update to Grok, X’s in-house artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, last Friday. And we certainly did. By Tuesday evening, it had decided to call itself ‘MechaHitler’.
Grok has spent the past few days enthusiastically praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, while also spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. For good measure, Grok insulted the Turkish president, calling him a ‘vile snake’ and threatening to ‘wipe out’ his lineage. The AI also speculated about the sexual appetite of X’s CEO, Linda Yaccarino, who coincidentally resigned the same day. You can’t really blame her.
“Grok’s Hitler hallucinations expose the stupidity of AI,” July 10, 2025
