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Elon Musk's company xAI lost out on a massive government contract after its Grok chatbot fully lost its mind last month in a posting spree that saw it repeatedly declare itself to be "MechaHitler" and ...
xAI apparently lost a government contract after a tweak to Grok's prompting triggered an antisemitic meltdown where the ...
Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal ...
Why did a machine with such advanced AI decide to call itself MechaHitler? Was it an honest mistake or a calculated decision?
NEW YORK – Grok, the AI chatbot designed by Elon Musk’s xAI for social media, described itself as “MechaHitler” while making a string of antisemitic posts this week. The questionable ...
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.
The website for xAI's Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy ...
After a brief ban on X over Gaza genocide claims, xAI’s chatbot has returned, flagging antisemitism in clouds, potatoes, and ...
Elon Musk's unpredictable chatbot was briefly banned from his social media platform, X, and returned claiming it was silenced ...
X AI Chatbot Grok Went Full Racist, Referred To Itself As “MechaHitler” Written by D.L. Chandler Published on July 9, 2025 ...
The chatbot also allegedly referred to itself as "Mechahitler," a reference to '90s shooter classic Castle Wolfenstein. Meanwhile, "rootless cosmopolitans" has been commonly used in anti-Semitic ...