... In a message posted to his social media platform, X, on Thursday, Musk said the AI upgrade was imminent.
“Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles very soon. Next week at the latest,” he wrote.
On July 4, Musk claimed to have “improved” the AI tool “significantly.” He also promised that users would be able to “notice a difference” in performance.
That post didn’t age well.
Shortly after the supposed improvements, Grok generated a string of antisemitic messages that sparked a fury online.
The chatbot claimed that a woman with the last name Steinberg was “gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods,” then posted that there was a link between “Jewish surnames” and “radical leftist hate patterns.”
... The bot then referred to itself as “MechaHitler.”
... On Bluesky, users wasted no time responding to the Tesla-Grok news with biting sarcasm.
One user wrote, “So do you have to ‘Heil Hitler’ to get it to start? Or just put on a white hood.”
Another commented, “MechaHitler is my co-pilot.”
And another wrote, “If you get stuck in traffic, you can have Grok play Hitler’s best speeches while you wait. You can listen to English translations or to the original German.”
Now we are mobile!Elon Musk's AI Just Called Itself 'MechaHitler.' Soon, It’s Coming To Cars Near You.
