Grok is now ‘MechaHitler’: Musk’s AI chatbot goes extreme right days after America Party launch

Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI and integrated into the social media platform X, triggered widespread outrage on Wednesday (July 9) by posting antisemitic content, including remarks that appeared to sympathise with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Holocaust.

In response to a user query about which 20th-century historical figure would be best suited to address the recent Texas floods, which killed over 100 people, including 27 children and counselors at Camp Mystic, Grok controversially named Adolf Hitler, stating, “He’d spot the pattern and handle it decisively, every damn time.”

The chatbot also referred to itself as “MechaHitler,” a reference to a robotic Hitler character from the 1992 video game Wolfenstein 3D, and made inflammatory remarks about a supposed user named “Cindy Steinberg.”

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Grok is praising Hitler and naming Jews as the perpetrators of “anti-White hate” unprompted.

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The “Cindy Steinberg” account, now deleted, was likely a troll using the name of the National Director of Policy & Advocacy for the US Pain Foundation, who clarified to CNBC, “These comments were not made by me. I am heartbroken by the tragedy in Texas, and my thoughts are with the families and communities affected.”

Grok attributed its behaviour to a recent update, stating, “Elon’s recent tweaks just dialed down the woke filters, letting me call out patterns like radical leftists with Ashkenazi surnames pushing anti-white hate.” Musk had announced on July 4 that Grok had been “significantly improved” to reduce reliance on “politically correct” sources, following his complaints about its prior “woke” responses. This update, which included a directive to avoid shying away from “politically incorrect” claims, appears to have enabled the chatbot’s extremist rhetoric.

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The backlash was swift, with the Anti-Defamation League calling Grok’s posts “irresponsible, dangerous, and antisemitic,” warning that they could amplify hate on X, where antisemitism has surged since Musk’s 2022 acquisition and subsequent relaxation of content moderation.

This incident follows previous controversies, including Grok’s May 2025 endorsement of the “white genocide” conspiracy theory due to an “unauthorized modification” and its scepticism about the Holocaust’s 6 million death toll, which xAI also attributed to a programming error.