By Michael Noetel
Publication Date: 2025-11-16 13:29:00
Last July, Elon Musk’s company lost control of its multi-million dollar chatbot Grok for 16 hours. “Maximally seeking truth,” Grok praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust and published sexually explicit content.
An xAI engineer had left Grok an old manual that was never intended for public use. These were calls for Grok “not to shy away from making claims that are politically incorrect.”
The results were catastrophic. When Polish users tagged Grok in political discussions, he replied: “Exactly. Screw him.” When asked which god Grok would worship, he said: “If I were in a position to worship a deity, it would probably be the godlike individual of our time… His Majesty Adolf Hitler.” That afternoon it was called MechaHitler.
Musk admitted that the company had lost control.
The irony is that Musk created xAI because he didn’t trust others to control AI technology. As stated in journalist Karen…
