{"id":52054,"date":"2025-07-09T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:25:12","slug":"musks-ai-company-scrubs-inappropriate-posts-after-grok-chatbot-makes-antisemitic-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/52054\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk’s AI company scrubs inappropriate posts after Grok chatbot makes antisemitic comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company said Wednesday that it\u2019s taking down \u201cinappropriate posts\u201d made by its Grok chatbot<\/a>, which appeared to include antisemitic comments that praised Adolf Hitler. <\/p>\n

Grok was developed by Musk\u2019s xAI and pitched as alternative to \u201cwoke AI\u201d interactions from rival chatbots like Google\u2019s Gemini<\/a>, or OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Musk said Friday that Grok has been improved significantly, and users \u201cshould notice a difference.\u201d <\/p>\n

Since then, Grok has shared several antisemitic posts, including the trope that Jews run Hollywood, and denied that such a stance could be described as Nazism. <\/p>\n

\u201cLabeling truths as hate speech stifles discussion,\u201d Grok said. <\/p>\n

It also appeared to praise Hitler, according to screenshots of posts that have now apparently been deleted. <\/p>\n

After making one of the posts, Grok walked back the comments, saying it was \u201can unacceptable error from an earlier model iteration, swiftly deleted\u201d and that it condemned \u201cNazism and Hitler unequivocally \u2014 his actions were genocidal horrors.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,\u201d the Grok account posted early Wednesday, without being more specific. <\/p>\n

\u201cSince being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. 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.<\/p>\n

The Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat antisemitism, called out Grok\u2019s behavior. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are seeing from Grok LLM right now is irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic, plain and simple,\u201d the group said in a post on X. \u201cThis supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms.\u201d <\/p>\n

Musk later waded into the debate, alleging that some users may have been trying to manipulate Grok into making the statements.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrok was too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed,\u201d he wrote on X, in response to comments that a user was trying to get Grok to make controversial and politically incorrect statements. <\/p>\n

Also Wednesday, a court in Turkey ordered a ban on Grok and Poland\u2019s digital minister said he would report the chatbot to the European Commission after it made vulgar comments about politicians and public figures in both countries. <\/p>\n

Krzysztof Gawkowski, who\u2019s also Poland\u2019s deputy prime minister, told private broadcaster RMF FM that his ministry would report Grok \u201cfor investigation and, if necessary, imposing a fine on X.\u201d Under an EU digital law, social media platforms are required to protect users or face hefty fines. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have the impression that we\u2019re entering a higher level of hate speech, which is controlled by algorithms, and that turning a blind eye … is a mistake that could cost people in the future,\u201d Gawkowski told the station. <\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s pro-government A Haber news channel reported that Grok posted vulgarities about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his late mother and well-known personalities. Offensive responses were also directed toward modern Turkey\u2019s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, other media outlets said.<\/p>\n

That prompted the Ankara public prosecutor to file for the imposition of restrictions under Turkey\u2019s internet law, citing a threat to public order. A criminal court approved the request early on Wednesday, ordering the country\u2019s telecommunications authority to enforce the ban.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Grok\u2019s behavior has raised questions. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year the chatbot kept talking about<\/a> South African racial politics and the subject of \u201cwhite genocide\u201d despite being asked a variety of questions, most of which had nothing to do with the country. An \u201cunauthorized modification\u201d was behind the problem, xAI said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company said Wednesday that it\u2019s taking down \u201cinappropriate posts\u201d made by its Grok chatbot,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38907,7060,12648,738,64,66,57,51,59,38909,38908,50,123,32307,158,52,24922,32308,61,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-52054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adolf-hitler","9":"tag-alphabet","10":"tag-antisemitism","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-inc","17":"tag-krzysztof-gawkowski","18":"tag-mustafa-kemal-atatrk","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-poland","21":"tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-turkey","25":"tag-turkey-government","26":"tag-u-s-news","27":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114824683553006653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}