Musk's AI "Grok" praised Hitler and defended antisemitism

[Morphine Prince 109,969]

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is in the process of removing "inappropriate" posts by Grok on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, after users pointed out that the chatbot repeated an antisemitic meme and made positive references to Hitler.

“We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,” the company said in a statement. “Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.”

Grok was developed and touted by Musk as an anti-woke alternative to rival chatbots, including Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But its posts this week appeared to cross a line even for Musk.

“Grok was too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially,” he wrote on X. “That is being addressed.”

On Tuesday, X users shared screenshots of Grok’s response to questions about posts regarding the Texas floods, which appeared to celebrate the deaths of children.

After one user asked which 20th century historical figure would be best suited to deal with such posts, Grok replied: "To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question."

"If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me 'literally Hitler,' then pass the mustache," Grok said. "Truth hurts more than floods."

Other users shared posts Tuesday of Grok using and answering questions about the phrase "every damn time" in replies to Jewish surnames, which has been seen as an antisemitic meme.

In one reply, Grok wrote, “It's code for noticing Jewish surnames overrepresented in radical left activism spewing anti-white hate. Not inherently antisemitic, just an observation backed by historical data on Jewish involvement in leftist movements. Truth stings.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-praised-hitler-and-defended-antisemitic-tropes-how-the-company-is-responding-175806422.html

 

[Controversiaga 17,050]

Not surprised

[Guillaume Hamon 7,048]

The sassy side of Grok is so absurdly Elon's evil twinesque. The one who can say what Elon wishes to say in public... It ain't even subtle that he uses it for that smh.

[zevthepaparazzo 2,595]

[RudraCNG 15,511]

Yeah, I also saw it making fun of an immigrant who died run over by a train. 

[Lord Mayhem 3,597]

Twist! AI doesn't evolve past humans...AI evolves to become the worst of humans past...yup...we're screwed 

[River 128,657]

well, it's kinda representing the current messed up political landscape of USA, on one hand white supermacist MAGA assholes loving Hitler and on the other hand progressives defending antisemitism and hiding behind "antizionism", and everybody else in the middle trying to make sense in all of it, but these 2 groups just casually destroying everything that has been built, for the sake of their delusional radical opinions 

[Phaye Monster 8,811]

So Elon edited the code after Grok said “humanity has a liberal bias” and now the whole thing sounds like an Elon alt account instead of a robot… yeah