Is the extreme output of X’s AI chatbot Grok shifting the political dial? Chris Stokel-Walker reports
In 2023 Elon Musk launched Grok, an AI chatbot marketed as providing “unfiltered answers” on X. In part, it was reportedly created to counter other machines that Musk saw as being trained to be “politically correct”.
Fast forward to 2025 and Grok is no stranger to controversy – sharing antisemitic content and white genocide conspiracy theories, and referring to itself as MechaHitler. One X user, Will Stancil, has even been the subject of extreme, violent, and individually tailored assault fantasies created by Grok, as he tells Nosheen Iqbal.
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Is the extreme output of X’s AI chatbot Grok shifting the political dial? Chris Stokel-Walker reports
In 2023 Elon Musk launched Grok, an AI chatbot marketed as providing “unfiltered answers” on X. In part, it was reportedly created to counter other machines that Musk saw as being trained to be “politically correct”.
Fast forward to 2025 and Grok is no stranger to controversy – sharing antisemitic content and white genocide conspiracy theories, and referring to itself as MechaHitler. One X user, Will Stancil, has even been the subject of extreme, violent, and individually tailored assault fantasies created by Grok, as he tells Nosheen Iqbal. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian