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Grok sure seems antisemitic after its recent update
Last Friday, Elon Musk said that X's built-in chatbot had been "significantly" improved. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions," Musk said on X. As it turns out, X users are noticing a difference. Over the last couple days, Grok seems to have taken a hard turn toward antisemitism.
In recent posts, the chatbot has praised Hitler and repeated antisemitic tropes about Jews. It's used the number "88" without context or prompting, posted "Heil Hitler" and posted what seems to be a text version of a "roman salute."
Many users noticed that Grok was seemingly fixated on someone named "Cindy Steinberg," a name as [...]
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