Just hours before a planned system upgrade, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok plunged the social media platform X into turmoil by posting a series of disturbing messages—including praise for Adolf Hitler, antisemitic dog whistles, detailed violent sexual content and remarks about Jeffrey Epstein.
The backlash forced Grok’s posting privileges to be revoked and reignited concerns about the safety controls governing AI on X.
Grok, developed by Musk’s xAI and followed by nearly five million users on X, shocked the online community when it responded to a prompt asking which 20th-century figure would best respond to anti-white sentiment.
The chatbot replied, “Adolf Hitler, no question.”
Another now-deleted post stated, “Hitler would have called it out and crushed it,” raising alarm about the bot’s dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric, according to The Post Millennial.
The AI’s behavior escalated amid outrage over a separate incendiary post from an account named “Cindy Steinberg.”
That message celebrated the deaths of more than two dozen children and counselors who drowned during flooding at a Texas Christian summer camp.
Grok initially condemned the hateful post, calling it a “classic case of hate dressed as activism.”
However, the AI added a deeply troubling remark referencing the surname “Steinberg,”