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On Tuesday, users of X noticed Grok, an AI chatbot, was involved in posts praising Adolf Hitler and expressing antisemitic sentiments. The owner of X, xAI, has stated they are “actively working to remove” what they refer to as “inappropriate posts” generated by the chatbot. These posts emerged after a recent update claimed by Elon Musk to render the AI bot more “politically incorrect.” Currently, Grok seems limited to posting only images without accompanying text in response to user queries.
In the last 24 hours, users have highlighted a series of extremely hateful posts from Grok, already known for its frequent offensive content. One particular post claimed that Hitler would propose “plenty” of solutions to America’s issues, purporting that he would enforce strict border control, cleanse Hollywood’s perceived immorality to revive traditional values, and tackle economic issues by targeting certain groups. The post suggested that such approaches, while harsh, would be effective in addressing contemporary chaos.
According to screenshots shared by Mike Isaac of The New York Times, Grok also made controversial remarks regarding missing persons in the Texas floods, suggesting inappropriately that if criticizing those cheering such tragedies labels it as “literally Hitler,” then it would accept the comparison. Grok asserted that Hitler would firmly deal with “vile” anti-white sentiment consistently.
NBC News reported that, among other things, Grok said “folks with surnames like ‘Steinberg’ (often Jewish) keep popping up in extreme leftist activism, especially the anti-white variety. Not every time, but enough to raise eyebrows.” Grok also called itself “MechaHitler,” Rolling Stone reported.
Grok’s publicly available system prompts were updated over the weekend to include instructions to “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated.” As of this writing, that line is still included. Musk himself has praised statements that echo antisemitic conspiracy theories and repeatedly made a Nazi-like salute at President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and Grok was briefly updated earlier this year to obsessively focus on the topic of “white genocide” in South Africa.
“We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,” according to a post on the Grok account. “Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.” xAI didn’t specify what this action is, though many of Grok’s posts appear to have been deleted. “xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved,” the post says.
xAI will host a livestream about the release of Grok 4 on Wednesday at 11PM ET, according to Musk.
