I'm Will Stancel. I'm an attorney in Minnesota.

A few days ago, I spoke with a guy named Will Stancel. He's been using Twitter, now X, for years,

posting mainly about liberal politics to his more than 100,000 followers.

I've been pretty aggressive about calling out what seems to me to be a real upsurge and far-right

extremist, you know, bigotry, radicalism, transphobia, Islamophobia, you name it.

And as I've done that, I've attracted a fair amount of attention from these folks.

And I've become a pretty significant target for them.

Trolling, harassment, none of that is new to Will. But last Tuesday, something happened on X that shocked him.

It had to do with an AI chatbot called GROC,

which you can interact with on X.

X users can tag GROC in a post,

and GROC will post back,

which means that the chatbot's interactions

sometimes play out in public.

And last week, Will and other ex-users

started noticing that GROC's responses were becoming

increasingly hate-fueled.

It started giving answers that initially hinted at kind of anti-Semitism and bigotry.

Over the course of the day, it got dramatically more anti-Semitic.

It seemed to spiral almost.

X's AI chatbot GROC seemingly showing very little restraint.

The bot has been praising Hitler, targeting users with Jewish-sounding names,

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