Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant

xAI is scrambling to contain the fallout after its Grok chatbot went – and there is no other way of putting this – full Nazi in its X (formerly Twitter) posts.

The posts have since been deleted, but in the last 24 hours, the chatbot reportedly began praising Adolf Hitler to the point of describing itself as "MechaHitler."

In place of the posts is the text: "We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking [models] and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved."

However, some replies that hint at what might have caused the chatbot's behavior remain online. When asked ...