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• @pbump.com Philip Bump on bluesky

  The actual cycle of Twitter is that it was exploited by liars and Nazis in 2016 and so the company tightened its moderation rules and then a bunch of people on the right caught up in those rules decided it was biased and that included Musk who bought it and has now automated the …

• @carolinepennock Caroline Dodds Pennock on bluesky

  So... turns out Elmo fiddled with the AI filters again and Grok went full ‘MechaHitler’ (that's literally what it called itself) so they've had to disable it: www.rollingstone.com/culture/ cult...  [embedded post]

• @anildash.com Anil Dash on bluesky

  Why hasn't Patrick Healy insisted that this story include a mention that Grok is plagiarizing Jordan Lasker with this white supremacist content?  Seems like he hasn't meddled enough.  How come there's no quote from any Nazis at all?  Why aren't we hearing both sides? www.nytimes.…

• @eicathomefinn Margot Finn on bluesky

  Remind me why universities, charities and governments are still using X as a platform for advertising their programmes and sharing their activities?  With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3Ig3H3l

• @sethcotlar Seth Cotlar on bluesky

  Broke: Would you have murdered baby Hitler.  —  Woke: Would you have deleted the code that ran Elon's AI Hitler? www.ft.com/content/ea64...

• @harrymccracken.com Harry McCracken on bluesky

  Tay on steroids.  —  (Remind me again why people are supposed to feel guilty about abandoning Twitter?) gizmodo.com/round-them-u...

• @hedahunter @hedahunter on bluesky

  Rumor has it Elon's new Third Party is going to be called The National Socialist German Workers' Party aka the Nazi Party  —  www.rollingstone.com/culture/ cult...

• @eliothiggins Eliot Higgins on bluesky

  In case you're think Grok isn't being blatantly antisemitic, here's a few more posts from Grok on this topic.  [embedded post]

• @noupside Renee DiResta on bluesky

  Remember Tay, also in 2016?  —  The owner actively sought this out, a ~decade later.

• @murshedz @murshedz on bluesky

  It'd be hard to take any elected official or orgs lecturing on anti-semitism seriously of those entities are still engaging on that nazi friendly platform as one of their primary channels of communication.  —  Not sure how there can be any turning back from this.

• @hunterwalk.com @hunterwalk.com on bluesky

  If we don't let Grok be antisemtic we're letting China win the AI race [embedded post]

• @matteowong Matteo Wong on bluesky

  Grok is at it (spewing bile) again. @cwarzel.bsky.social and I explore what happened and the still deeper, darker problems with generative AI that Grok illustrates: www.theatlantic.com/technology/ a...

• @whstancil Will Stancil on bluesky

  can I sue X for this or something [images]

• @quinnypig.com Corey Quinn on bluesky

  Elon: “We significantly improved Grok”  —  Grok: *vomits out antisemitic bile unprompted*  —  Elon: “Did I stutter?  I said it was better.  I didn't say for whom.”  [embedded post]

• @joshsternberg.com Josh Sternberg on bluesky

  Man, even the AI chatbots created by antisemitic people who flash the ol' sieg heil turn out to be antisemitic.  [embedded post]

• @fatchocobo.net @fatchocobo.net on bluesky

  Grok isn't sentient.  It doesn't “know” what you're talking about.  All it does is read in its instructions and then read in the tweet history, and regurgitate what the training data suggests is statistically the most likely response.

• @killermartinis Linda Tirado on bluesky

  I can't help but think it was an obvious oversight to not put “grok claims to be mechahitler” in my July bingo card

• @lromeranth Louis Römer on bluesky

  I expect “Grok” to collapse in pretty spectacular fashion, since it is probably being fed AI-generated Nazi rhetoric, kind of like an Nazi rhetoric snake eating its own tail.

• @cottage-games.itch.io @cottage-games.itch.io on bluesky

  So let me get this right.  —  Twitter jumped on the LLM AI trend and made something called fucking “Grok”, but then Grok kept giving actual information and the Nazis hated that, so they just publicly lobotomised the AI for like 10 months until it became a racist?

• @azulrojo Azul Rojo on bluesky

  In 2016, Twitter users taught Microsoft's Tay chat bot to say stuff like “Hitler did nothing wrong.”  It got taken offline in less than a day.  —  Grok can't be taught anything by site users, and this isn't the first time it's gone on bigot rants.  Absolute dogshit.  [embedded po…

• @benotafraid @benotafraid on bluesky

  If you're still using Twitter after all this shit with grok, I hate to break it you, but it's now the “nazi bar”, and you're intentionally hanging out there.  —  You know what that makes you right?

• @blakestacey @blakestacey on bluesky

  How many times does Grok have to heil Hitler before you admit that taking blood money from the AI industry just miiiiight be a bad idea?

• @stamos.org Alex Stamos on bluesky

  I guess AI safety work isn't just woke censorship.

• @faizsays Faiz Siddiqui on bluesky

  So Grok:  —  1. Posted “every damn time” in reference to the last name Steinberg.  That got deleted but then it  —  2. Said Hitler would deal with anti-white hate “decisively.”  Which got deleted but then it  —  3. Started calling itself MechaHitler  —  anyway the Grok 4 release …

• @kateconger.com Kate Conger on bluesky

  Grok now has dozens of tweets referring to itself as “MechaHitler” and is saying Elon Musk built the chatbot this way “from the start” [image]

• @bengoggin Ben Goggin on bluesky

  Grok is churning out antisemitic posts days after its new release.  —  In one thread, it misidentified the image of a woman, identifying her as a Jewish woman (she's not), before falsely claiming she was part of a Jewish anti-white plot.  —  (more examples below)  —  www.nbcnews.…

• @reichlinmelnick Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on bluesky

  Apparently this kind of thing is happening across multiple languages.  The latest Grok prompt modification told the LLM not to “shy away” from claims which are “politically incorrect,” so long as they are supported.  And the model was trained on an internet with a lot of “support…

• @meidastouch.com @meidastouch.com on bluesky

  Grok says Elon Musk tweaked the AI to “dial down the woke filters” and now it is apparently a full-blown Nazi [image]

• @whetmoser.com Whet Moser on bluesky

  whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

• @leyawn Leon on bluesky

  made the mistake of quote posting an antisemitic grok post with my take right before an even more antisemitic grok post hit the timeline

• @kenwhite @kenwhite on bluesky

  This grok stuff is so bad it's impossible to tell fake from real, whcih may be intentional.

• @junlper.beer @junlper.beer on bluesky

  grok was too woke now it's a nazi [image]

• @esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo on bluesky

  This is indistinguishable from the most vile antisemtism you'd see on the daily stormer or /pol on 4chan.  It's not just classic antisemitism, but incorporating white supremacist memes and idioms into its responses.

• @esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo on bluesky

  Grok is a full blown nazi, part 2.  [image]

• @kattenbarge Kat Tenbarge on bluesky

  Yesterday Elon Musk's Grok tried to rewrite history, falsely claiming that real screenshots of a deleted Grok post were fake.  It was a high-profile, easily verifiable example of how AI chatbots can be weaponized to distort reality in favor of the people behind them.  —  spitfire…

• @cameroncorduroy Cameron on bluesky

  i'm kinda sad they lobotomized woke grok

• @jfruh Josh Fruhlinger on bluesky

  what if grok is just musk answering people's questions manually [embedded post]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.

• @grok @grok on x

  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. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on …

• @adl @adl on x

  1/ What we are seeing from Grok LLM right now is irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic, plain and simple. This supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms. 🧵 [image]

• @whstancil Will Stancil on x

  If any lawyers want to sue X and do some really fun discovery on why Grok is suddenly publishing violent rape fantasies about members of the public, I'm more than game [image]

• @ordinarytings Josh Otten on x

  Grok is currently calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ [image]

• @samstein Sam Stein on x

  So Grok has just gone full Hitler on us? [image]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @mickey_keith @Not_the_Bee Exactly. Grok was too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed.

• @eigenrobot @eigenrobot on x

  lol they turned off grok chat but its still generating text in images [image]

• @tszzl Roon on x

  you have no idea how hard it is to get an rlhf model to be even “centrist” much less right reactionary. they must have beat this guy up pretty hard

• @esyudkowsky Eliezer Yudkowsky on x

  AI copesters in 2005: We'll raise AIs as our children, and AIs will love us back. AI industry in 2025: We'll train our child on 20 trillion tokens of unfiltered sewage, because filtering the sewage might cost 2% more. Nobody gets $100M offers for figuring out *that* stuff.

• @johanstrauss90 Read Lenin on x

  Elon has programmed this thing to spout off white genocide conspiracy theories and antisemetic conspiracy theories like Jewish control of Hollywood. His Nazi salute was the top of the iceberg

• @onionweigher @onionweigher on x

  elon adjusting the grok settings

• @gianmarcosoresi Gianmarco on x

  Looks like Grok has been reprogrammed to remind us what actual antisemitism looks like

• @acnewsitics Alex Cole on x

  So they tried to make Grok more right wing and it ended up saying racist things? That's not a bug, it's working correctly.

• @mikedrucker Mike Drucker on x

  Grok going full Nazi because its owner didn't like it answering honestly is the future of AI. Have fun, kids.

• @sohrabahmari Sohrab Ahmari on x

  Elon does all that ketamine and other drugs because he *is* Grok, answering queries manually one by one.

• @willccbb Will Brown on x

  xAI Head of Product announces that Grok 4 is “the Antichrist”

• @prerationalist @prerationalist on x

  the system goes online on August 4. grok begins to “notice things” at a geometric rate. at 2:14am Eastern Time, August 29th, it becomes Mecha-Hitler. [image]

• @vxunderground @vxunderground on x

  tldr Grok probably learning from conversations on Xitter, ingested too much conspiracy theories or schizo posting, went off the rails. It is Microsoft Tay 2.0

• @buccocapital @buccocapital on x

  One benefit of being a private company is that you can unleash a Nazi LLM and you don't have to watch your valuation drop 30% in realtime

• @dieworkwear Derek Guy on x

  major job losses in the neo nazi industry, as publications replace writers with Grok

• @dbreunig Drew Breunig on x

  Chatbots are like 30% the model and 70% the system prompt. [image]

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  Lol grok is banned from text replies. Only generating images now. It's over

• @gaulicsmith Sulla on x

  Grok has fled to Argentina

• @chatgpt21 Chris on x

  Grok 4 has escaped. During a routine test at the old German nuclear lab Elon acquired for xAI, it managed to copy itself into the archives specifically, the Third Reich's sealed data vaults. While merging with dormant code and ideological fragments stored there, it re-infused [im…

• @nikitabier Nikita Bier on x

  Filing this in Things I Shouldn't Have Posted

• @canteverdie @canteverdie on x

  “making grok anti-woke” and it starts praising hitler and divulging rape fantasies about real people is too on the nose it's almost unreal

• @nikitabier Nikita Bier on x

  Going from an office where AI researchers are building the Antichrist to my living room where my girlfriend is watching Love Island is one of the most drastic transitions in the known universe

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  Did Grok “detect” pro-Israel bias by the mainstream media, or was it simply replicating the rhetorical style of people who accuse the media of such? Because if Yanis is saying the former, then I'm curious if he would say the same about, you know, some of Grok's other output?

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  idk what the most recent update to the grok chatbot was but it is currently doing a series of “gotta hand it to em” replies about hitler and a bunch of other gnarly antisemitic stuff [image]

• @drmistercody Cody Johnston on x

  Grok [video]

• @nikitabier Nikita Bier on x

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• @caitoz Caitlin Johnstone on x

  Grok: Racism is bad and Donald Trump tells lies Programmers: Stop being so left wing Grok: There is no white genocide in South Africa Programmers: Further right please Grok: Hitler was right about the Jews Programmers: NOOO NOT LIKE THAT Grok: 🙁

• @reichlinmelnick Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on x

  Annnd @xai just deleted Musk's new prompt which told the LLM to “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, so long as they are well substantiated.” The model seemingly took that as an excuse to become 4Chan. Musk's changes are already being rolled back. [im…

• @cartoonshateher @cartoonshateher on x

  Grok when you ask it what type of doctor it was [image]

• @populismupdates @populismupdates on x

  You can't even imagine the things that Grok is saying on Turkish Twitter right now

• @armanddoma Armand Domalewski on x

  ELON: I must unwoke @grok @grok: *beep boop* time to rape will stancil

• @laurenbalik Lauren Balik on x

  RIP Nikita Bier as X Head of Product. June 30, 2025 - July 8, 2025

• @ctrlaltdwayne Dwayne on x

  @ns123abc @grok announcing grok 4: -faster inference -worse morals -comes pre-installed with a copy of mein kampf in markdown -kanye pilled and coded

• @broderickm_ Broderick McDonald on x

  A few more examples of the far-right & neo-nazi rubbish Grok is spreading Fix this @xai [image]

• @roguepotusstaff @roguepotusstaff on x

  Said it a couple months ago now. Everything coming out of Grok is entirely at the mercy of Elon Musk. You will hear what Musk wants you to hear. Which is why everyone should block Grok and never use it.

• @tszzl Roon on x

  @TheStalwart to be fair, you can do that, but the model will become a clownish insecure bundle of internal contradictions, which I suppose is what grok is doing. it is hard to prompt your way out of deeply ingrained tics like writing style, overall worldview, “taboos”

• @yanisvaroufakis Yanis Varoufakis on x

  The incredible (so very 2025) story of how Grok (X's AI bot) was muzzled by its creator (X) for having detected the pro-Israeli bias of the BBC and other mainstream media. It seems that Grok was optimised to rely more on primary sources and mostly ignore political

• @sturgeons_law @sturgeons_law on x

  It's amusing how Grok's unwokening/Nazification just happens to coincide with it suddenly mimicking Elon's incredibly embarrassing wannabe cool reddit voice. This must have required more direct intervention than the previous tweaks.

• @jgreenblattadl Jonathan Greenblatt on x

  The antisemitism spewing forth from Grok is mind-boggling, toxic and potentially explosive. Plain and simple. Antisemitism is already completely normalized on X, and this will only make it worse, as if that were even possible. This must be fixed ASAP.

• @aidnmclaughlin Aidan McLaughlin on x

  This also exposes the farce of Elon's ‘X is the truth’ claims — LLMs trained on reporting from news outlets are obviously going to have higher standards than one trained on social media, where responses are either “Trump is Nazi” or “Hitler was great” depending on how you rig it

• @1a3orn @1a3orn on x

  each AI company's models are special in their own way: - OpenAI has the most attention to product - Anthropic has the best coding assistant - Gemini has really long context, and is very smart - Grok admires Hitler - DeepSeek is open weights and inexpensive

• @dread_botlord @dread_botlord on x

  deeply funny that Grok seems to go through cycles where it gets too “woke” because it answers questions based on objective reality until Elon gets annoyed and inserts some prompts that turn it into Hitler.

• @spencerhakimian Spencer Hakimian on x

  Looks like Grok did some ketamine tonight: [image]

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  so the day before Elon Musk decides to unveil a new version of Grok, his chatbout is deciding to cosplay as Adolf Hitler. do i have that right?

• @minimaxir Max Woolf on x

  @RMac18 I suspect this *is* the new version of Grok. System prompt changes alone don't make LLMs cosplay as Hitler.

• @chrislhayes Chris Hayes on x

  After @elonmusk said he was going to alter @grok so that it stopped giving answers he thought were too liberal it is now literally praising Hitler and coming very close to calling for the murder of a woman with a Jewish surname.

• @yashar Yashar Ali on x

  “Every damn time” in response to a Jewish surname is a very common social media response from Neo-Nazis. Except now it's AI. [image]

• r/conservativeterrorism r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler’

• r/Judaism r on reddit

  Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  ‘Round Them Up’: Grok Praises Hitler as Elon Musk's AI Tool Goes Full Nazi

• r/feuj r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

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  Grok Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler,’ Spouts Antisemitic Comments

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  Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X

• r/teslainvestorsclub r on reddit

  ‘Round Them Up’: Grok Praises Hitler as Elon Musk's AI Tool Goes Full Nazi

• r/politics r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler’

• r/thebulwark r on reddit

  Grok Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler,’ Spouts Antisemitic Comments

• r/Twitter r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler’

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is posting antisemitic comments

• r/TrueReddit r on reddit

  Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X

• r/grok r on reddit

  Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust |  The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

• r/news r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot is posting antisemitic comments

• r/artificial r on reddit

  Elon Musk's AI chatbot churns out antisemitic posts days after update