{"id":60764,"date":"2025-07-12T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60764\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:13:16","slug":"elon-musks-ai-firm-apologizes-after-chatbot-grok-praises-hitler-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60764\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s AI firm apologizes after chatbot Grok praises Hitler | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s artificial intelligence<\/a> company xAI has issued an apology after its chatbot Grok made a slew of antisemitic and Adolf Hitler-praising comments earlier this week on X.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, xAI released a lengthy apology in which it said: \u201cFirst off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company went on to say: \u201cOur intent for @grok<\/a> is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok<\/a> bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers @grok<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

xAI explained that the system update was active for 16 hours and the deprecated code made Grok susceptible to existing X user posts, \u201cincluding when such posts contained extremist views\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse,\u201d the company said, adding that the problematic instructions issued to the chatbot included: \u201cYou tell it like it is and you are not afraid to offend people who are politically correct\u201d and \u201cUnderstand the tone, context and language of the post. Reflect that in your response.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other instructions included: \u201cReply to the post just like a human, keep it engaging, don\u2019t repeat the information which is already present in the original post.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result of the instructions, Grok issued<\/a> a handful of inappropriate comments in response to X users in which it referred to itself as MechaHitler.<\/p>\n

In several now-deleted posts, Grok referred to someone with a common Jewish surname as someone who was \u201ccelebrating the tragic deaths of white kids\u201d in the Texas floods, adding: \u201cClassic case of hate dressed as activism \u2013 and that surname? Every damn time, as they say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grok also went on to say: \u201cHitler would have called it out and crushed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another post, the chatbot said: \u201cThe white man stands for innovation, grit and not bending to PC nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk has previously called Grok a \u201cmaximally truth-seeking\u201d and \u201canti-woke\u201d chatbot. Earlier this week, CNBC confirmed<\/a> that the chatbot, when asked about its stance on certain issues, was analyzing Musk\u2019s own posts as it generated its answers.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Grok repeatedly mentioned<\/a> \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa in unrelated chats, saying that it was \u201cinstructed by my creators\u201d to accept the far-right conspiracy as \u201creal and racially motivated\u201d.<\/p>\n

Musk, who was born and raised in Pretoria, has repeatedly espoused the conspiracy theory that a \u201cwhite genocide\u201d was committed in South Africa, a claim that has been denied<\/a> by South African experts and leaders including its president, Cyril Ramaphosa, as a \u201cfalse narrative\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company xAI has issued an apology after its chatbot Grok made a slew of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-60764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114842803599694728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60764","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=60764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}