On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared itself to be a robot version of Hitler, spewing antisemitic hate and racist conspiracy theories. This followed X owner Elon Musk’s declaration over the weekend that he was insisting Grok be less “politically correct.”

After Grok took a hard turn toward antisemitic earlier this week, many are probably left wondering how something like that could even happen.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, was recently upgraded — and soon thereafter, unleashed a string of antisemitic posts on X and branded itself "mecha-Hitler." The chatbot was eventually shut down, but now,