Elon Musk, Grok and chatbot
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It claimed to just be “noticing patterns” — patterns like, Grok claimed, that Jewish people were more likely to be radical leftists who want to destroy America. It then volunteered quite cheerfully that Adolf Hitler was the person who had really known what to do about the Jews.
After Grok took a hard turn toward antisemitic earlier this week, many are probably left wondering how something like that could even happen.
It isn't immediately clear what led to the disturbing posts, whether due to a fault in the chatbot's programming or if Grok was just following orders.
MechaHitler is a fictional cyborg version of Adolf Hitler from the 1992 game Wolfenstein 3D, which gained fame in 90s satire and early internet memes.
Grok maker xAI quietly updated its chatbot to assume all media is biased, relying on X, a platform known for misinformation.
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