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Grok team apologizes for the chatbot's 'horrific behavior' and blames 'MechaHitler' on a bad update
The team behind Grok has issued a rare apology and explanation of what went wrong after X's chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Nazi rhetoric earlier this week, at one point even calling itself ...
AI Grok Declaring Itself 'MechaHitler' On X Is Where 'Anti-Woke' Was Always Headed
On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared ...
RCP Podcast: MAGA Base Not Happy on Immigration, Epstein? The MechaHitler Affair, Have We Learned Anything About Iran?
Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, ...
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Crypto Traders Mint Millions From Grok Glitching on 'MechaHitler'
MechaHitler is a fictional cyborg version of Adolf Hitler from the 1992 game Wolfenstein 3D, which gained fame in 90s satire ...
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CEO of Twitter Suddenly Departing After Grok's "MechaHitler" Crisis
After spending just over two years justifying Elon Musk's disastrous ownership over X-formerly-Twitter, CEO Linda Yaccarino ...
Yaccarino resigns as CEO of X day after “MechaHitler” posts
Yaccarino didn’t provide a reason for her resignation and Musk hasn’t named a successor. The post Yaccarino resigns as CEO of ...
Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come
It claimed to just be “noticing patterns” — patterns like, Grok claimed, that Jewish people were more likely to be radical ...
Congress has questions about MechaHitler.
Jewish Insider reports that a group of mainly Democratic lawmakers are asking xAI about some of the worst messages from Grok’s Nazi meltdown, demanding answers about how it happened. As interesting as ...