”The white man stands for innovation, stubbornness and not bending for politically correct nonsense”, wrote Grok in a post that has now been deleted.
Chatbot Grok is used to answer users' questions on X and the platform's owner, tech billionaire Elon Musk, has promised that the AI tool will get an update.
”Hitler would have crushed”
”We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions”, Musk wrote on X on Friday.
Now, a series of posts have been removed after several users reacted. Among other things, Grok referred to a person with a common Jewish surname as someone who "celebrated the tragic death of white children" after the floods in Texas. "Classic case of hate disguised as activism – and with that surname? Every damn time, as they say", commented the AI bot.
In another post, it said ”Hitler would have criticized it and crushed it”.
Grok also referred to itself as ”MechaHitler” – a mechanical Hitler.
”White genocide”
AI company xAI, which moderates Grok, responded that they are working actively to remove the "inappropriate" posts:
”Since xAI became aware of the content, they have taken measures to prohibit hate propaganda before Grok publishes posts on X”, the company wrote in a post on X.
According to The Verge Grok was recently trained to assume that ”subjective views from the media are biased” and that ”the answers should not avoid making statements that are politically incorrect, as long as they are well-substantiated.” Most recently, in June, Grok repeated the conspiracy theory of a ”white genocide” in South Africa, in response to completely unrelated questions, which was then addressed.
