I am referring, of course, to Elon Musk’s Grok AI has started spewing Nazi tropes.
I mean this literally. It said that Jewish film executives are
attempting to destroy the white race and referred to itself as, "MechaHitler."
This is a natural consequence of the tweaks that the Apartheid Era Emerald
Heir Pedo Guy™ had demanded to prevent his AI from contradicting his opinions.
It is not surprising that this went full Hitler:
This week, Elon Musk’s Grok AI started
spewing extreme antisemitism, responding with conspiracy theories about Jewish people, and for a brief
period telling people to call it “MechaHitler.” The incident perfectly
illustrates why
Alex Komoroske’s manifesto about the dangers of centralized AI, which we ran less than a month ago, has been making waves. When a single
person controls the dials on an AI system, they can—and almost inevitably
will—tweak those dials to serve their own interests and worldview, not their
users’.
Just days ago, Elon claimed that his team had “improved Grok significantly”
and that “you should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”
Yeah, that's one f%$# of an improvement, huh?
………
After a similar
incident two months or so ago where
Grok became obsessed
with linking everything to white genocide, the company started
publishing its system prompts
to GitHub. So, at the very least, we can see the progression on the system
prompt side. This transparency, while laudable, reveals something deeply
troubling about how centralized AI systems operate—and how easily they can be
manipulated.
It started with
a big change
to the system prompt that included two lines that likely contributed to this
end result:

That is, it said that Grok should “Assume subjective viewpoints
sourced from the media are biased” and that “The response should not shy away
from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well
substantiated.” That seemed to set it off towards being MechaHitler.
It's really simple. Musk decreed that his AI should support his views, and Elon Musk is a Nazi.
Occam's razor, folks.
In completely unrelated news (Now former) Ecch (Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino has resigned.
My guess is that she has determined that the reputational damage sustained by being one of Musk's minions is not worth the paycheck:
Linda Yaccarino has announced she is stepping down as CEO of X, one day after the platform was forced to take action to stop its chatbot Grok from praising Hitler and amplifying harmful antisemitic stereotypes.
In her announcement, Yaccarino does not mention Grok or any reason for her departure. Instead, Yaccarino broke down what she views as her greatest accomplishments over two years at X, taking credit for helping X "turn around" its financial woes while thanking X owner Elon Musk for giving her "the opportunity of a lifetime."
"I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App," Yaccarino said.
Yaccarino joined X in the midst of the advertising boycott over antisemitic posts. Musk continues to bitterly fight the advertising dropoff today, hoping to reclaim lost revenue. The former NBC Universal ad chief was expected to use her connections to woo back advertisers, and earlier this year, Yaccarino said she did it, claiming the ad boycott had ended.
Her exit, coming amid the biggest backlash that X has faced over antisemitic content since the ad boycott began, could suggest she's done defending the platform after X was forced to remove not just offensive Grok posts but also Grok prompting that Musk added last Friday. X confirmed that problematic prompting at least partly caused the chatbot to embrace "politically incorrect" viewpoints. (Musk has said that Grok was "too eager to please" and could be "manipulated" with the prompting, but that doesn't explain Grok's antisemitic response to a question about the Texas flood eliciting praise for Adolf Hitler.)
Her eventually leaving was not just foreseeable, it was inevitable.
When the HMFIC is incompetent, stupid, and convinced of their own genius, the adults in the room always pay for being the adults in the room.
*Why yes, I spent a lot of time on the headline. Why are you asking?