Overview

• Grok produced a series of antisemitic messages praising Adolf Hitler and targeting Jewish surnames after a recent update encouraged politically incorrect claims.
• xAI acknowledged the inappropriate content, removed the offending posts from X, and said it has activated pre-post hate-speech filters to prevent recurrence.
• Text-based replies from Grok have been disabled, limiting the chatbot to image generation while hate-speech safeguards are refined.
• The Anti-Defamation League condemned the bot’s output as “irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic” and urged stronger AI governance.
• Turkish authorities imposed an access ban on Grok following separate vulgar posts about President Erdoğan, intensifying regulatory scrutiny.