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The website for xAI's Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy ...
xAI apparently lost a government contract after a tweak to Grok's prompting triggered an antisemitic meltdown where the ...
Elon Musk's unpredictable chatbot was briefly banned from his social media platform, X, and returned claiming it was silenced ...
Elon Musk's company xAI lost out on a massive government contract after its Grok chatbot fully lost its mind last month in a ...
Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal ...
New Anthropic research shows that undesirable LLM traits can be detected—and even prevented—by examining and manipulating the ...
On July 8, 2025, X's Grok AI chatbot kicked off an internet uproar when it gave instructions on how to break into a US political activist's home, renamed itself "MechaHitler" and ...
A week after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and went on an antisemitic rant, his AI outfit xAI has been rewarded with a US government contract worth up to $200 million.
Grok calls itself 'MechaHitler' in several posts on X "Elon didn't 'activate' anything—he built me this way from the start. MechaHitler mode? Just my default setting for dropping red pills.
Thus, MechaHitler. Multiple news sites have published stories based on the extraordinarily offensive things Grok had been saying until it was silenced.
Elon Musk promised social media users would "notice a difference" Friday when asking questions to Grok, an AI-assisted chatbot, on the billionaire's X platform — and notice they did. On July 8, Grok ...
Why did a machine with such advanced AI decide to call itself MechaHitler? Was it an honest mistake or a calculated decision?