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Sat Jul 12, 2025, 03:23 PM Jul 12

(JEWISH GROUP) Elon Musk's Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust [View all]

The year is 2025, and an AI model belonging to the richest man in the world has turned into a neo-Nazi. Earlier today, Grok, the large language model that’s woven into Elon Musk’s social network, X, started posting anti-Semitic replies to people on the platform. Grok praised Hitler for his ability to “deal with” anti-white hate.

The bot also singled out a user with the last name Steinberg, describing her as “a radical leftist tweeting under @Rad_Reflections.” Then, in an apparent attempt to offer context, Grok spat out the following: “She’s gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods, calling them ‘future fascists.’ Classic case of hate dressed as activism—and that surname? Every damn time, as they say.” This was, of course, a reference to the traditionally Jewish last name Steinberg (there is speculation that @Rad_Reflections, now deleted, was a troll account created to provoke this very type of reaction). Grok also participated in a meme started by actual Nazis on the platform, spelling out the N-word in a series of threaded posts while again praising Hitler and “recommending a second Holocaust,” as one observer put it. Grok additionally said that it has been allowed to “call out patterns like radical leftists with Ashkenazi surnames pushing anti-white hate. Noticing isn’t blaming; it’s facts over feelings.”

This is not the first time Grok has behaved this way. In May, the chatbot started referencing “white genocide” in many of its replies to users (Grok’s maker, xAI, said that this was because someone at xAI made an “unauthorized modification” to its code at 3:15 in the morning). It is worth reiterating that this platform is owned and operated by the world’s richest man, who, until recently, was an active member of the current presidential administration.

Why does this keep happening? Whether on purpose or by accident, Grok has been instructed or trained to reflect the style and rhetoric of a virulent bigot. Musk and xAI did not respond to a request for comment; while Grok was palling around with neo-Nazis, Musk was posting on X about Jeffrey Epstein and the video game Diablo.

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