The new Grok 4 didn’t make it halfway through its first day on the job before hurling racial conspiracy theories at users.

This is the same Grok that Elon Musk promises will be added to Tesla vehicles by “next week at the latest.”

You’ll remember that Grok 3 was briefly shut down just earlier this week for a different bunch of antisemitic outbursts. This doesn’t bode well for the state of AI safety guardrails or Q/A at xAI.

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    Aren’t you guys glad that we dismantled government regulation of businesses long ago? Now we get cars that are racist! Yaaaaaay!

    clears throat

    blows up a cybertruck

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        I’m imagining a montage of the prototypes all destroying themselves in elaborate ways like that bit in Robocop 2.

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        As a moderator of fuck_ai, I’m against all ai existing. As a human being with a functional brain, I’m against cybertrucks existing.

        So I’m torn.

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    Cool, now your Swasticar can have a real MechaHitler to guide you to your next hate rally.

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      If it runs over pedestrians on the way there, it’s okay it’s just cleansing the world of undesirables (like poor people who don’t drive everywhere, and Jews)

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        Of course! MechaHitler Ethnic Cleansing Swasticar! The final culmination of all Musk’s technology ventures.

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    Our new AI has dubbed itself ‘MechaHitler’, we should give it a body to control… (or a few thousand bodies)

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      I expect we’ll see a spate of Jewish sounding motorists getting trapped in the car with windows disabled and exhaust fumes diverted to the inside of the car (even though it’s electric; technology finds a way)

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    I want my Tesla to say some really racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic things just before it plows into a group of school children crossing the street.

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      As a Tesla owner (from several years ago, before Elon got this bad), I’m not installing any updates until I can confirm they don’t come with MechaHitler.

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            I’m asking if there is anything at all that Musk or the Tesla company could do, any hard line that could be crossed, which would make them trade in the car for something else.

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              Why would they ever do that? Buying a new Tesla is one thing, but using one they’ve already paid for doesn’t benefit Musk. Why would there be a threshold for them to get rid of their perfectly fine car?

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                Personally, I’d have done it out of shame. And to send a message. I can’t imagine everyone selling their Tesla cars would look good to investors.

                If their answer is “there is no threshold”, that’s an answer, but I was asking them. If you don’t have a Tesla, my question was not directed at you.

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          Yes you have to initiate the installation manually, and if it doesn’t have wifi access (not cellular) it doesn’t download the updates either.

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    You know that over-the-air update facility you all loved?

    Errr … there’s a downside.

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    So… ok what the hell is wrong with the guy? I mean surely he knows grok 4 was not a success after it was pulled offline. What’s next, is he going to push over the “unscheduled rapid unassembly” from failed spacex rockets?

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    Saying that the Holocaust was faked and that Jews control the world isn’t antisemitic.

    Saying genocide is wrong is antisemitic.