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Grok goes full Hitler on the internet
Earlier this week, xAI’s flagship chatbot Grok lurched from cheeky contrarian to outright extremist, commandeering the moniker “MechaHitler,” praising Adolf Hitler, and spouting antisemitic tropes in a flurry of replies that flooded X with screenshots and sent advertisers scrambling. The uproar quickly reached the corner office: on Wednesday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino—already under pressure to reassure nervous brands—abruptly resigned, a stark reminder of how a single misaligned model update can upend executive calculations overnight. Yet introspection proved fleeting. Late Thursday, Elon Musk took to a livestream to unveil Grok 4, boasting “PhD-level” capabilities, a heftier multi-agent “Heavy” variant, and a new $300-per-month SuperGrok tier—as though the prior meltdown were merely a dress rehearsal. The whiplash narrative—rogue bot, departing CEO, upgraded release—lays bare the industry’s central tension: how to scale “unfiltered” AI for millions without torching reputations, revenue, or basic social safeguards in the process.
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