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.”

Grok, X's built-in chatbot, took a hard turn toward antisemitism following a recent update.

Grok’s antisemitic comments and invocation of Hitler followed.