Billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk said Thursday that Tesla vehicles will soon feature the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, developed by Musk’s AI startup xAI. In a message posted to his social media platform,

AI chatbot Grok has apologised for its “horrific” behaviour in a series of posts on X, after posting antisemitic comments and praising Adolf Hitler. In the same breath, the XAI-owned chatbot also referred to itself as “MechaHitler.”

Grok began repeatedly praising Adolf Hitler, using antisemitic phrases and attacking users with traditionally Jewish surnames.

After Grok took a hard turn toward antisemitic earlier this week, many are probably left wondering how something like that could even happen.

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It claimed to just be “noticing patterns” — patterns like, Grok claimed, that Jewish people were more likely to be radical leftists who want to destroy America. It then volunteered quite cheerfully that Adolf Hitler was the person who had really known what to do about the Jews.

Grok’s MechaHitler meltdown wasn’t AI gone rogue; it was mimicry unmasked – a chatbot parroting humanity’s darkest memes without understanding. Unlike Gemini’s woke hallucinations, Grok revealed our raw,