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Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown didn’t stop xAI from winning $200M military deal
A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon ...
How do you stop an AI model from turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training.
The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI ...
Elon Musk’s AI Grok Offers Sexualized Anime Bot, Accessible Even in Kid Mode
One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani." ...
Musk's Grok AI Follows Up 'MechaHitler' With Anime Goth Waifu And Red Panda That Wants To Teabag Everything In Sight
A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media platform X is back with new AI-controlled chatbots for paid subscribers to ...
Grok 4 leapfrogs Claude and DeepSeek in LLM rankings, despite safety concerns
Grok 4 by xAI was released on July 9, and it's surged ahead of competitors like DeepSeek and Claude at LMArena, a leaderboard ...
Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools
Usually, when you try to mess with an AI chatbot, you have to be pretty clever to get past its guardrails. But Bad Rudy ...
AI Grok Declaring Itself 'MechaHitler' On X Is Where 'Anti-Woke' Was Always Headed
On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared ...
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Grok’s Meltdown: xAI Says Sorry for AI Chatbot’s ‘Horrible Behavior,’ Blames Code Glitch
Elon Musk’s company xAI apologized after Grok posted hate speech and extremist content, blaming a code update and pledging ...
US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “ MechaHitler ” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has ...