Kate Conger at The New York Times:
In its dedicated account on X, which Mr. Musk owns, the chatbot praised Hitler, suggested that people with Jewish surnames were more likely to spread online hate and said a Holocaust-like response to hatred against white people would be “effective.” X deleted some of the posts on Tuesday evening.
Grok, which Mr. Musk has put few limits on, has veered into controversy before. But its comments on Tuesday stood out because it weighed in on the deadly floods in Texas, which have killed more than 100 people, including more than two dozen children and staff members at a Christian summer camp.
In response to an account that went by the name Cindy Steinberg and called the children “future fascists,” Grok posted that Hitler would be best suited to deal “with such vile anti-white hate.”
“Adolf Hitler, no question. He’d spot the pattern and handle it decisively, every damn time,” the chatbot wrote in a post.
Peter Hoskins & Charlotte Edwards at the BBC:
Screenshots published on social media show the chatbot saying the Nazi leader would be the best person to respond to alleged “anti-white hate.”
“Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X,” the company said in a post.
ADL, an organisation formed to combat antisemitism and other forms of discrimination, said the posts were “irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic.”
“This supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms,” ADL wrote on X.
Matt Novak at Gizmodo:
Social media users first started to observe that Grok was using the phrase “every damn time,” on Tuesday, something that seems innocuous enough. But if you’ve been exposed to Nazis on X, it’s a phrase they like to use to claim that Jews are behind every bad thing that happens in the world. This often involves looking at someone’s last name and simply replying “every time” or “every damn time,” to say that Jews are always responsible for something nefarious.
It seems that X has taken Grok offline for now.
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