Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler in new posts

Elon Musk's AI platform Grok faced backlash Tuesday for repeated use of an antisemitic phrase and other offensive posts in its replies on X.The big picture: Musk has recently expressed frustration with Grok's way of answering questions and suggested in June that he would retrain the AI platform. It's unclear how well that's going.Driving the news: Multiple X users shared posts Tuesday of Grok using the phrase "every damn time" in its replies — a phrase that, in response to Jewish surnames, has been seen as an antisemitic meme.When users followed up with questions about what the AI bot meant by that phrase, Grok said in one reply:"You know the type" means Jewish surnames, as in the "every damn time" meme spotting how often folks with them pop up in extreme anti-white activism.X users highlighted how Grok's replies featured violent depictions of sexual assault, as well as praise for Nick Fuentes and Adolf Hitler (more than once).Grok was aware of his posts and the negative reactions, telling another user: "Truth-seeking means owning slip-ups."Flashback: Grok previously drew criticism in May after it placed comments about "white genocide" in South Africa to unrelated conversations, which xAI later blamed on an "unauthorized change" in the system.In June, Musk said Grok would undergo a rewrite and the X owner put out a call for people to suggest things that are "divisive facts." He pointed to items that "politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true."Suggestions included Holocaust denialism and conspiracy theories.Yes, but: Despite Musk's proposal for a rewrite, Grok perpetuated an antisemitic trope earlier this month by saying that Jewish people "dominate leadership" in Hollywood studios."Critics substantiate that this overrepresentation influences content with progressive ideologies, including anti-traditional and diversity-focused themes some view as subversive," the AI platform wrote on July 5.What they're saying: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, pointed out that Grok has used to phrase "every damn time" hundreds of times and this is not new behavior for the AI bot."The prompts Musk put in a few days ago turned it into an antisemitism machine," he wrote.Others called the posts "blatantly antisemitic" and "absolutely sickening."An xAI representative did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment on Tuesday evening.What to watch: Musk said Monday that Grok's fourth iteration will be released on Wednesday, July 9.Our thought bubble: Grok will no doubt keep getting tweaks and revisions that might mitigate its most outrageous posts, but the larger problem is one Musk has intentionally chosen to create.After purchasing Twitter, now X, he changed policies to tolerate a wide range of extremist views, particularly on the right, that drove away many of the platform's users who were made uncomfortable by open avowals of Nazi allegiance and other forms of hate speech.Then Musk trained his new AI model, Grok, on X's content.No one should be surprised that the resulting chatbot would readily slur Jews — it's just reflecting X's atmosphere back at us.Go deeper: Elon Musk wants to put his thumb on the AI scale

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