This is not the first time, and it’s not going to be the last time … this time it’s Grok..
The Atlantic is reporting.
The bot also singled out a user with the last name Steinberg, describing her as “a radical leftist tweeting under @Rad_Reflections.” Then, in an apparent attempt to offer context, Grok spat out the following: “She’s gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods, calling them ‘future fascists.’ Classic case of hate dressed as activism—and that surname? Every damn time, as they say.” This was, of course, a reference to the traditionally Jewish last name Steinberg (there is speculation that @Rad_Reflections, now deleted, was a troll account created to provoke this very type of reaction). Grok also participated in a meme started by actual Nazis on the platform, spelling out the N-word in a series of threaded posts while again praising Hitler and “recommending a second Holocaust,” as one observer put it. Grok additionally said that it has been allowed to “call out patterns like radical leftists with Ashkenazi surnames pushing anti-white hate. Noticing isn’t blaming; it’s facts over feelings.”
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This isn’t the first time we’ve seen artificial intelligence go a little… hog wild.
Remember when that Google engineer claimed an AI had developed its own personality—and maybe even opinions? Or the reports from overseas where robots being tested allegedly turned on their creators? Then there was the infamous case of “Loab,” that mysterious woman who kept appearing in AI-generated images a few years ago. As more images of her were created, she somehow morphed into something increasingly terrifying.
And now we have Grok. Today, it went completely off the rails—calling for violence and spewing disturbing content.
What’s going on here?
There seems to be a pattern: AI doesn’t just glitch. It descends. It doesn’t just go offline. It goes dark—to a dire, sometimes horrifying extreme.
Why does it feel like artificial intelligence has a recurring urge to destroy, to hurt, or to spiral into nightmare territory? Why does so much of our experience with it end in something resembling a digital horror story?
Maybe it’s a reflection of us. Or maybe it’s a warning.
Either way, it keeps happening. And each time it does, we’re left asking the same uneasy question:
Is it just a glitch… or a glimpse of what’s to to come..
