Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X [View all]

Source: Wired

Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, made a series of deeply antisemitic remarks in response to several posts on X on Tuesday.

A large language model that is integrated into X, Grok acts as a platform-native chatbot assistant. In several posts—some of which have been deleted but have been preserved via screenshot by X users—Grok parroted antisemitic tropes while insisting that it was being “neutral and truth-seeking.”

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Posts of this nature started appearing after a software update was apparently issued on Friday, July 4, when Musk said on X that Grok had been “significantly” improved. Musk added that users “should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”

According to Grok code updates made on Sunday, the chatbot has been instructed to “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated” and to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased.” xAI is holding a launch event Wednesday for its next major release, Grok 4.

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Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/grok-antisemitic-posts-x-xai/

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I posted about this in GD more than four hours ago, got zero response to the OP and finally deleted it. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220469590 I'd pointed out there - since we do have some DUers who unfortunately consider Grok a reliable source of information - that no one should ever trust chatbots.

I'll copy the Bluesky post I'd posted there at 3:02 CT below, but first want to post links to a number of other news stories about this that were published in the last few hours:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/07/08/elon-musks-grok-identifies-as-mechahitler-in-x-posts/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/technology/grok-antisemitism-ai-x.html


The Bluesky post from a NYT reporter that I'd posted in GD:

today in Grokology, the chatbot is doing antisemitism

— kate conger (@kateconger.com) 2025-07-08T19:40:01.263Z