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What Next: TBD | When Bots Go Nazi

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It’s kind of strange that Grok, Elon Musk’s chatbot, went full Nazi a few weeks ago, and is just…still out there. But, then again, how are you supposed to hold an LLM accountable? Guest: Drew Harwell, technology reporter for the Washington Post Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.4

Y2K. That's Y2K spelt WHY2K. Hey everyone, it's Lizzie. Just a little heads up that in this episode

1:05.0

we are talking about Nazi bots. So take care when listening. Here's the show.

1:21.6

I don't know how you spent your Fourth of July holiday, but Grock, Elon Musk's AI chatbot,

1:28.9

spent its holiday being a real jerk online. Musk had told users about an update to the model, and oh boy.

1:30.4

It basically turned Grock

1:32.2

into a

1:33.4

anti-Semitic

1:35.6

Hitler-praising

1:37.9

Mecca Hitler-style

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