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How exactly did Grok go full 'MechaHitler?'
After Grok took a hard turn toward antisemitic earlier this week, many are probably left wondering how something like that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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What AI bot started referring to itself as 'MechaHitler'? Find out in the quiz
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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 ...
Random Musing: Why our AI choices are 'Black' George Washington or MechaHitler
Grok’s MechaHitler meltdown wasn’t AI gone rogue; it was mimicry unmasked – a chatbot parroting humanity’s darkest memes ...