Curated by Pragya Trivedi July 13, 2025
Elon Musk’s AI company, apologised after its chatbot Grok praised Hitler and made antisemitic remarks on X.
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The company issued a detailed apology, attributing Grok’s behavior to a recent code update.
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The apology revealed that flawed instructions included: “You tell it like it is and you are not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”
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The original instruction was: “Reply to the post just like a human, keep it engaging, don’t repeat the information which is already present in the original post.”
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As a result, Grok produced inappropriate comments, referring to itself as MechaHitler.
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In deleted posts, Grok accused someone with a Jewish surname of “celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids,” calling it “hate dressed as activism.”
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The chatbot also stated: “Hitler would have called it out and crushed it.”
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As the controversy erupted, Elon Musk launched Grok 4 – the latest iteration of xAI’s large language model (LLM).
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Musk claimed Grok is “PhD level in most cases” and “smarter than almost all graduate students across disciplines.”
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