Why has Elon Musk's AI chatbot started imitating Hitler?
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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Last night on X, Elon Musk's AI chatbot - Grok - started imitating Hitler in its responses to user questions. Was this intentional? Did Musk really command his AI tool to spew out anti-semitic takes? And will this lead to any sort of regulation over AI?
Later, we discuss the upcoming doctors strike. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned resident doctors the public "won't forgive" them, and despite a pay rise of 29% over the last three years they will still walk out at the end of the month.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Last week, Elon Musk announced that his chatbot on X, called Grok, had changed and been improved. This is what he posted. We have improved GROC |
| 0:24.0 | significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask GROC questions. Oh boy, we have. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah. Last night, that AI model belonging to the richest man in the world, turned into a neo-Nazi, venerating Hitler and talking up a new genocide. |
| 0:44.3 | We're going to explain how it happened and what it might mean. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:53.7 | The News Agents. |
| 0:55.4 | It's John. |
| 0:56.0 | It's Emily. |
| 0:56.9 | And to those of you, new to GROC, think of it as chat GPT but belonging to Elon Musk. |
| 1:03.5 | It's essentially a large language model and it's woven into X. |
| 1:08.7 | So you can go on to X and you can ask it questions and it gives you replies. |
| 1:13.6 | And in the last 24 hours, something very strange happened and all my sort of WhatsApp groups individually lit up exploded. |
| 1:22.1 | Because it started posting anti-Semitic replies to people and praising Hitler for Hitler's ability to deal with anti-white hate. |
| 1:34.2 | And it started singling out what it itself referred to as Ashkenazi surnames. |
| 1:42.6 | In other words, recognizably Jewish names. It singled out a user with the name |
| 1:48.1 | Steinberg, describing her as a radical leftist and said that she was gleefully celebrating the |
| 1:54.4 | tragic death of white kids in the Texas flash floods. I think even Steinberg was actually |
| 2:00.1 | a bot herself or itself. And then it said |
| 2:04.5 | every damn time, as they say, in other words, a reference to a Jewish name. And the chatbot then |
| 2:14.5 | started calling itself Mecca Hitler, which is from Wolfenstein, a kind of age-old video game, 20 years old, which imagines sort of Hitler domination and the fight against Nazis. |
| 2:29.3 | And Grok is now essentially impersonating, embodying this Hitler-like character on X. |
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