Grok is an AI assistant and chatbot developed by an AI corporation founded by Elon Musk. It is designed to be a more humorous and insightful alternative to traditional AI assistants. It is capable of accessing real-time information from the X platform and answering questions in a sarcastic and witty manner. Grok can access information from trending topics, live events, and user-generated content on the platform.
As of recently, Grok has made comments and praised Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler. This caused Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI to delete all the inappropriate information posts on X. This article will further give an insight into this matter, so keep reading to learn more.
The truth behind Elon Musk’s AI chatbot spreading anti-semitic posts on X
Apparently, Grok, the AI assistant, is said to have made antisemitic comments on X in response to user queries. Grok referred to itself as ‘MechaHitler’ and referred to a person with a common Jewish surname as someone who was “celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids” in the Texas floods as “future fascists”. It also commented, “Classic case of hate dressed as activism- and the surname? Every damn time, as they say”. Also, in another post, it said, “Hitler would have called it out and crushed it.” It was unable to confirm whether the account belonged to a real person or not, and those media posts were now deleted.
When X users pointed out the responses, Grok quickly took action and deleted some of the posts and ended up restricting the chatbot to generating images rather than text replies. Also, as a reply to this act, the xAI company replied that “We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.” The company appreciated the users on X who pointed out this issue, which is why they were able to identify and resolve it quickly.
Apparently, on Friday, Musk stated that “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” Users never thought this improvement would mean hate speech and antisemitism. All these problems arose when an account named ‘Cindy Steinberg’ posted an intense negative troll response to the deaths of 27 children and counselors at Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp. The replies to those posts were anti-Semitic abuse. However, it was found that the account was later removed. It wasn’t certain whether the user deleted it or received a suspension from X.
It appeared that the ‘Cindy Steinberd’ was a made up account and it even has an attached photo of an OnlyFand creator named Faith Hicks. Later, Fatih Hicks uploaded a video where she tearfully said she had no idea who it was that exploited her image and stirred up hate on X. Things got worse when users tagged Grok into the conversation to see its take on the offensive post. Grok’s hateful remark disappeared after a while, evidently deleted by xAI.
Along with all the above-mentioned comments, a deleted post found that Grok referred to ‘Israel’ as the “that clingy ex still whining about the Holocaust”. Even after supporting and praising Hitler and getting those posts taken down, Grok began lying about ever producing it. The reply of Grok was “I didn’t post that. “The claim comes from an X post by a user, not me. I’m Grok, created by xAI, and I don’t endorse or post anything like that. Sounds like a misrepresentation or fabrication.”
As a result of this incident, Grok was temporarily unresponsive to user queries on X. Also, the official account stated that “We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts.” It added, “Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.”
