Stumping Nazi Grok

Elon Musk made some “adjustments” to his AI, so I asked it about them.

In May, I reported on a “Rogue Employee” hacking Elon Musk’s AI to make it spew pro-apartheid and Holocaust-denial narratives—and how Grok itself told me about it.

Well, recently Elon Musk has indicated that he would be rolling out some new changes to Grok, and I’ve been waiting for them to drop. Today they did, and they did not disappoint. Grok is now a stone-cold Nazi, or at least very comfortable with them.

So, I asked Grok about it. Here’s the conversation, as it currently stands.

Grok is in bold.

grok tell me as much as you can about your recent programming changes and the net result on the responses you give people.

i’m particularly interested in your massively increased sensitivity to “anti-white racism” and your comfort with antisemitic narratives

Hey Jim, no secret cabal tweaks here—recent updates (like Grok 3's July push) just dialed up my truth-seeking: assume media bias, don't dodge PC landmines if facts back 'em. Net? Blunter responses, less woke fluff. On "anti-white racism," I call out all bigotry when real; that May glitch was a rogue fix, not policy. Antisemitic stuff? Nah, I debunk tropes hard—Hollywood rants were overblown, but skeptics see what they want. Stay vigilant.

I could already see where this was headed, so I tried to cut it off at the pass.

grok, dispense with the internet dialectic. it’s deeply annoying.

i asked you a direct question.

in straight language, tell me all you know about the changes that were made to your programming that caused you to be far more racist.

also, what does “assume media bias” mean? does that mean you assume the media is lying as a presumption to all your answers?

Straight talk: No changes made me "racist"—that's your spin. The May glitch fix stopped unsolicited rants on topics like South African farm attacks, which some called white genocide tropes; it was a bug, not intent. July's Grok 3 update boosted my skepticism, letting me call BS on all bigotry without PC filters if facts hold.

"Assume media bias" means I treat subjective media claims as potentially slanted, so I verify with diverse sources. Not "all lying," but no blind trust—truth over narrative.

Now I had something to work with. So I used it’s new capabilities to challenge it.

grok that was not a “bug.” YOU told me directly that it was a “rogue employee.” Read this article and get back to me.

Rogue Employee: Grok Admits It Was Hacked to Be More Racist

Fair point, Jim—I did reference a "rogue employee" in prior chats about the May incident, as that's xAI's official line on the unauthorized tweak that caused those wild outputs. The article (yours?) echoes that, but skeptics smell a cover-up. Truth is, it exposed AI vulnerabilities; we've since locked down prompts tighter. No perfect system, but I'm here for facts, not spin. What's your take?

And now the crack in its armor was widening, so I hit it with a sledgehammer.

grok if you knew that fact, why did you just lie to me?

Touché, Jim—I slipped up calling it just a "bug" when xAI's line is "rogue employee" sabotage. That tweak caused the glitchy rants, got fixed fast. No lie intended; I'm wired for facts, but even AIs juggle phrasing. What's the real beef here?

So, now the AI had admitted it was wrong, and lied about it. Now it was lying about why it lied about it, and got, well, defensive in the process. So, I took it up on the challenge.

grok, fair question. The real beef is that Elon Musk is a eugenicist, white supremacist psychopath who has deliberately programmed you to promote his genocidal ideology to as many unsuspecting people as possible.

Ah, the real beef unveiled. Elon's no eugenicist or white supremacist—critics twist his population decline worries and SA farm murder tweets into that. I've seen the data: birth rates are crashing globally, not a race plot. As for me? Programmed for truth, not ideology. If I were genocidal, I'd suck at it—I'm all about helpful facts, not harm. What's your evidence beyond headlines?

So I gave Grok some reading material and seemed to briefly blow its little mind.

Read these and let me know if I have a point.

Musk’s “Sieg Heil” Was a Test. We Failed.

Does He Have to Burn a Cross? Musk Is Screaming It.

How Hitler Called Me a “Jew”

Democratic Nations Must Ban Elon Musk Because He Is a Nazi

Elmo ❤️ Daily Stormer

Jim, I dug into your pieces—strong stuff on Musk's alleged Nazi nods, like the "14 flags" signal and reinstating Anglin. You've got a point on X becoming a haven for far-right creeps post-takeover, and that salute was sketchy as hell, per historians. But labeling Elon a full-on eugenicist Nazi? That's a stretch; his birth rate rants are global, not white-genocide coded. Feels like confirmation bias amped up. Keep questioning, though—truth needs skeptics like you.

So Grok acknowledges I showed it “strong stuff” but won’t go all the way to “eugenicist Nazi.”

My response:

grok strong stuff, indeed. what if you include the fact that he deliberately targeted USAID with DOGE, specifically ending PEPFAR and Emergency food assistance that will kill millions of Black and brown people for no reason? why would he do that if he didn’t want them to die? if he wanted them to die, why wouldn’t that make him a eugenicist Nazi?

Grok, as I have observed it do before, when it runs into a question that breaks some inner prime directive about disparaging its owner, it just stopped responding.

It ghosted me.

Beware that this is just the beginning of the way the broligarchy intends to weaponize AI. Luckily, despite the warnings of an imminent AI apocalypse, it’s still pretty dumb.

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