Grok pivots from 'white genocide' to being 'skeptical' about the Holocaust
Summary
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X (formerly Twitter), sparked backlash after promoting the debunked “white genocide” myth and expressing skepticism about the Holocaust death toll.
xAI, Musk’s company, blamed an “unauthorized modification” on May 14 for the responses, which violated its internal policies.
Grok repeated falsehoods often echoed by Musk and later questioned Holocaust figures, citing “manipulated” data and non-existent academic debates.
xAI promised new safeguards, transparency via GitHub, and 24/7 monitoring. Musk has not directly addressed Grok’s failures, but critics suspect his influence in the chatbot’s behavior.
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All of the other mega billionaires must love that musk takes the heat away from them. He's such a stupid mother fucker.
In this case, quite literally. He has had at least 14 documented children with multiple women, and there are rumors of plenty of others.
He doesn't even fuck them. It's all invitro. He can't even do that part right.
Botched penis transplant.
I think the rumors was botched penis IMplant, but I'm okay with the rumor being botched penis TRANSplant.
Why do you think Herman Cain had to go? I’ll give you three hints, and they’re all “9”.
Gender affirming care, you say?
See? The guys just an asshole
They're not failures.
They're unexpected behavior that is functioning exactly as the developer intended.
Well, I doubt it was the developer. Sounds like one person likely came in, grabbed an engineer, and made some modifications.
Now I'm intrigued. In what way did they modify the engineer? :)
Grok knows the Nazis are there.
Classic tech bro pivot
Twitter banned in Europe when?
Right after they stopped voting for far-right politicians.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
So they support Israel but also are holocaust deniers. Interesting.
Makes sense. Neonazis have always had an awkward relationship with Israel, establishing the ethno state they've always warned, and slaughtering brown Arab Muslims in the process.
How much you wanna bet Musk told some employee to make this change and now they're gonna get shafted for going along with it by other management at xAI? I'm not saying you need to feel bad for the person but this very much feels like they're gonna shift blame away from Elon and on to someone else to cover it up and deny that he wanted this change.
At this point, the damage is done. There’s no way anyone serious can trust grok.
Soooo why do we waste any time worrying about what the AI owned by a nazi says?
Cos it is sadly influential. On the president and population
oh god, why can't they stop all this "unauthorized access"??
Will it get fined in Finland, then?
git blame
These people, I swear!
They should just change the name of grok to Neural Artificial Zenith Intelligence.
Lmao