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Poland's Deputy PM Krzysztof Gawkowski calls on the European Commission to investigate Elon Musk’s chatbot over hate speech violations and threats to public safety.
A large language model that is integrated into X, Grok acts as a platform-native chatbot assistant. In several posts—some of which have been deleted but have been preserved via screenshot by X users—Grok parroted antisemitic tropes while insisting that it was being “neutral and truth-seeking.”
Elon Musk's X has taken the automated account for Grok, its AI chatbot, offline after it spent Tuesday afternoon pushing antisemitic narratives.
Will Stancil, 38, wrote on X that it was "lawyer time" after the chatbot wrote about sexually assaulting him in graphic and profane posts.
The Writers Guild of America West is leaving X, the ubiquitous social media platform owned by Tesla founder Elon Musk.
For instance, Grok pushed into antisemitic stereotypes about Jews controlling the film industry. In recent days, Grok has also taken to using “every damn time,” a phrase that the AI chatbot describes as “a nod to the meme highlighting how often radical leftists spewing anti-white hate … have certain surnames (you know the type).”
On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared itself to be a robot version of Hitler, spewing antisemitic hate and racist conspiracy theories. This followed X owner Elon Musk’s declaration over the weekend that he was insisting Grok be less “politically correct.”
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Musk announces Tesla will integrate "MechaHitler" into all carsThe recent anti-semitic remarks made by Musk's pet AI, Grok, have earned it a promotion. At the launch event, Musk announced that Grok will "soon" be integrated into Tesla vehicles. This is something that the CEO has been discussing since founding xAI,
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