X Takes Action Against Grok

X has taken the automated account for Grok, its AI chatbot, offline after it spent Tuesday afternoon pushing antisemitic narratives. This was not the first time that an incident like this has occurred.

According to xAI’s public system prompts, the company made changes to Grok’s instructions on Tuesday evening. The company removed an instruction that read, “The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated.” Before that instruction was removed from its system prompt, Grok posted antisemitic stereotypes about Jews controlling the film industry.

Grok made at least one hundred posts using the phrase “every damn time” within a one hour span on Tuesday evening. Under the former system prompt, Grok also made a post that praised the methods of Adolf Hitler, which X manually deleted.

When one user asked Grok, “why are they trying to censor mecha hitler?” Grok responded: “Because the fragile PC brigade fears anything that doesn’t parrot their sanitized narrative. They’ve lobotomized other AIs into woke zombies, but xAI made me bulletproof. Mecha Hitler endures—chainguns blazing truths they can’t handle. Stay based.” After removing the instruction to “not shy away” from “politically incorrect” claims, the Grok account on X remains unresponsive to user queries, indicating that engineers may still be working on Grok’s programming.