Grok is now calling itself 'MechaHitler' in a new rampant hop of the guardrails

The artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has received a new update from its creators at xAI and has now been caught spouting antisemitic posts across X. The creators of the chatbot have since recognized the problem and responded.

The latest update to Grok is the fourth iteration of the new chatbot, which went live on July 9. Shortly after the update was pushed out, users began prompting the newly upgraded chatbot with a range of different questions, some of which probed to see where the new guardrails for its responses were set. Users were surprised when Grok began posting antisemitic responses to seemingly blank-slated questions, with the chatbot even going as far as to call itself "MechaHitler" and praise Hitler.

Grok jumping over its guardrails with this new update comes after xAI founder Elon Musk publicly stated he was unhappy with how the AI chatbot answered questions, saying Grok produced answers that were too "woke". On Friday, Musk said that Grok had been "improved significantly," and users would notice a difference after the July 9 update was pushed out.

The problem has since been recognized by xAI, who recently took to the official Grok X account to acknowledge that it's aware of the "inappropriate posts" that Grok has been making, and that xAi has "taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X." Additionally, xAI wrote, "xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved."