Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has riled users again by embarking on a wide-ranging, hateful rant. But underlying the controversy are questions of not just how AI chatbots work but also what shapes their behaviour and to what extent it can be aligned with human values.

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If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me ‘literally Hitler,’ then pass the mustache. Truth hurts more than floods,” Grok wrote.

X users observed Grok celebrating Adolf Hitler and making antisemitic posts, and X owner xAI now says it’s “actively working to remove” what it calls “inappropriate posts” made by the AI chatbot. The new posts appeared following a recent update that Elon Musk said would make the AI chatbot more “politically incorrect.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok has been plagued by controversy recently over its responses to users, raising questions about how tech companies seek to moderate content from

The backlash against the AI chatbot built by Elon Musk's xAI has escalated since the posts were made Tuesday, with the ADL condemning the "extremist" comments.

The important thing to remember here is just that a single sentence can fundamentally change the way these systems respond to people, said Alex Mahadevan of the Poynter Institute, discussing the irritable actions of big language models (LLMs) such as Grok.

AI says it is actively working to remove 'inappropriate' posts. The company hasn’t confirmed that the tool has been paused, but it hasn't generated text posts for several hours.

Elon Musk's social network X blew up on Tuesday after its AI assistant Grok praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and went on a rant about "Jewish surnames." The post ‘Grok Has Just Gone Full Hitler’: X Users React to Elon Musk’s AI Praising Nazi Dictator,