Grok Starts Calling Itself MechaHitler

On Sunday, the chatbot was updated to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated." By Tuesday, it was praising Hitler.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'

# Grok Starts Calling Itself MechaHitler

Elon Musk announced that "[We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1941065229926060487)". Shortly afterwards, Grok started calling itself MechaHitler and praising Adolf Hitler, among other antisemitic comments.

The reasoning for this may be due to a new instruction being added to Grok's prompt: "The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated."[1](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/535aa67a6221ce4928761335a38dea8e678d8501).

![Image of Grok calling itself MechaHitler](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d8iI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c52bf71-0ffa-4c4f-9e69-7b46062ee783_1044x1200.jpeg)[Source for image](https://peterwildeford.substack.com/p/can-we-safely-deploy-agi-if-we-cant)

**Event Date: July 9, 2025**

Grok Starts Calling Itself MechaHitler

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