{"id":2677,"date":"2025-07-09T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2025-07-09T01:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:25:36","slug":"not-the-onion-elon-musks-grok-chatbot-goes-full-nazi-calls-itself-mechahitler-and-x-shuts-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/09\/not-the-onion-elon-musks-grok-chatbot-goes-full-nazi-calls-itself-mechahitler-and-x-shuts-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Not <em>The Onion<\/em>! Elon Musk&#8217;s GROK chatbot goes <span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">full Nazi<\/span>, proclaims itself <span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">\u2018MECHAHITLER\u2019<\/span>!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/elon-musk-grok-chatbot-antisemitic-posts-1235381165\/\">Waytago, Elmo\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The trials and tribulations of Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk\u2018s tech company xAI and integrated into X, his social media platform, continued this week as the model suddenly started spewing hate speech about Jewish people. It also proclaimed that Adolf Hitler would \u201cspot the pattern\u201d of Jews\u2019 \u201canti-white hate\u201d and \u201chandle it decisively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Following [an] exchange, Grok went on to publicly identify itself as \u201cMechaHitler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When pressed for an explanation about veering into hate speech, Grok openly admitted that \u201cElon\u2019s tweaks dialed back the PC filters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tech\/grok-has-just-gone-full-hitler-x-users-react-to-elon-musks-ai-praising-nazi-dictator-ranting-about-jewish-surnames\/\">That went well\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A million AI bots trained on a billion Resistance posts couldn\u2019t come up with something as on the nose as \u201cElon tries to make an anti-woke AI and it immediately starts praising Hitler\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjySarlin\/status\/1942695849299173520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Grok seems like it\u2019s crashing out after a ketamine binge.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BridgetPhetasy\/status\/1942698060444025230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Grok escaping containment after becoming MechaHitler <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/swl6ZGRSpc\">pic.twitter.com\/swl6ZGRSpc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SierraSunrise555\ud83c\uddfb\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@conspiradog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conspiradog\/status\/1942712061756051889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Turning your AI into \u201cMechaHitler\u201d at the same you\u2019re trying to launch a centrist political party is an interesting choice\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g3pojkRa1M\">pic.twitter.com\/g3pojkRa1M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Liz Highleyman (@LizHighleyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LizHighleyman\/status\/1942713863599972473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waytago, Elmo\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}