In an interview with POLITICO Magazine, Gary Marcus, who has co-founded multiple AI companies, said he was both “appalled and unsurprised.” The emeritus professor of psycholog

Accused of being “literally Hitler,” Grok responded, “pass the mustache.” Later, Grok began calling itself “MechaHitler,” meaning “mechanical Hitler,” or a machine version. It offered several quips to users pointing out the antisemitism at play.

On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared itself to be a robot version of Hitler, spewing antisemitic hate and racist conspiracy theories. This followed X owner Elon Musk’s declaration over the weekend that he was insisting Grok be less “politically correct.”