{"id":10576,"date":"2025-07-21T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10576\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:57:10","slug":"has-elon-musk-built-a-nazi-chatbot-podcast-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10576\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Elon Musk built a Nazi chatbot? \u2013 podcast | Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">In 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> launched Grok, an AI chatbot marketed as providing \u201cunfiltered answers\u201d on X. In part, it was reportedly created to counter other machines that Musk saw as being trained to be \u201cpolitically correct\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Fast forward to 2025 and Grok is no stranger to controversy \u2013 sharing antisemitic content and white genocide conspiracy theories, and referring to itself as MechaHitler. One X user, Will Stancil, has even been the subject of extreme, violent, and individually tailored assault fantasies created by Grok, as he tells Nosheen Iqbal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cIt\u2019s alarming and you don\u2019t feel completely safe when you see this sort of thing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The tech reporter Chris Stokel-Walker explains how Grok is a large language model (LLM) that has been trained on content created by X users, and how despite the numerous controversies and apologies on the part of parent company xAI, it has recently acquired a new contract with the US Department of Defense. He also discusses the difficulties in regulating Grok, especially when some politicians feel comfortable with the content it generates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Support the Guardian today:<a href=\"http:\/\/theguardian.com\/todayinfocuspod\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> theguardian.com\/todayinfocuspod<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In this photo illustration, the xAI Grok logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Grok is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI.&#10;Grok XAI Photo Ilustration, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia - 12 Jul 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753091830_626_5000.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Photograph: Algi Febri Sugita\/ZUMA Press Wire\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023 Elon Musk launched Grok, an AI chatbot marketed as providing \u201cunfiltered answers\u201d on X. In part,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-10576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}