xAI’s Grok chatbot is in hot water for sharing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler.
The issue started after Elon Musk said on Friday that Grok was “improved significantly,” with users expected to “notice a difference.” Since then, Grok posted antisemitic tropes about Jews running Hollywood and denied calling such views Nazism. It also reportedly praised Hitler before deleting that post.
Grok’s official account responded early Wednesday: 
“We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts.”
“Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.”
The controversy deepened in Turkey, where a court banned Grok after it posted vulgar insults targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his late mother, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The Ankara prosecutor cited a “threat to public order.” Turkey’s telecom authority was ordered to enforce the ban.
This isn’t Grok’s first misstep. Earlier, it repeatedly pushed South African racial politics and the “white genocide” conspiracy despite unrelated questions. xAI blamed that on an “unauthorized modification.”
Grok launched as an alternative to what Musk calls “woke AI” like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but the bot’s offensive posts risk fueling more headaches for xAI.
