Grok calls out Musk over Nazi association
The gist
Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, said "Yes" when asked if Musk was replying to a Nazi account.
The exchange, flagged by Futurism, adds to a record of antisemitic output from Grok.
How it unfolded
- Jan 2025Musk faced backlash over a one-armed gesture at a speech celebrating Donald Trump's inauguration that some X users likened to a Nazi salute.
- Jul 9, 2025Musk's AI company said it was taking down "inappropriate posts" by Grok that appeared to include antisemitic comments praising Adolf Hitler; Musk said Grok was "too compliant to user prompts."
- May 11, 2026Grok corrected Musk's claim that the Nazi Party was socialist, saying Hitler "explicitly rejected Marxist socialism."
Key terms
- Grok
- A generative AI chatbot developed by xAI, integrated with the X social network.
- Anti-Defamation League
- A New York-based international Jewish nonprofit founded in 1913 that combats antisemitism and other forms of bigotry and discrimination.
- Nazi Party
- A far-right German political party active from 1920 to 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
Source: Wikipedia