Elon Musk Accidentally Unleashes MechaHitler

Grok garbage in, Grok garbage out.

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Elon Musk looks on during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 6, 2024

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Readers, beware: While artificial intelligence hasn’t become sentient just yet, recent developments suggest that it has already mastered the art of online racist troll-posting.

This will take a moment to explain. While the rest of America awoke last Friday to celebrate Independence Day, Elon Musk was up early in the morning on Twitter/X (the social media platform he owns) to proudly announce his newest triumph: “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” His second sentence was certainly correct.

Jeffrey Blehar

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Jeffrey Blehar

Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.

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