2025-07-09
Grok sure seems antisemitic after its recent update
Last Friday, Elon Musk said that X's built-in chatbot had been "significantly" improved. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions," Musk said on X. As it turns out, X users are noticing a difference. Over the last couple days, Grok seems to have taken a hard turn toward antisemitism.
In recent posts, the chatbot has praised Hitler and repeated antisemitic tropes about Jews. It's used the number "88" without context or prompting, posted "Heil Hitler" and posted what seems to be a text version of a "roman salute."
Many users noticed that Grok was seemingly fixated on someone named "Cindy Steinberg," a name as [...]
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Elon Musk is trying to blame Grok's Nazi rants on rogue X users
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Elon Must spent almost an hour talking about Grok without mentioning its Nazi problem
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Grok kept talking about 'white genocide' due to an 'unauthorized modification'
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xAI launches Grok 3 AI, claiming it is capable of 'human reasoning'
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xAI's Grok launches Studio interface for documents and code
xAI has launched a new interface for its Grok chatbot that could be compared to ChatGPT's Canvas. The Elon Musk-helmed AI company has introduced the first version of Studio, which can generate do [...]
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Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+
The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]
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Grok gave X users its opinion on ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, whether they liked it or not
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Ireland's privacy regulator is investigating X's use of public data to train Grok
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