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Comment by Tadpole9181

3 days ago

Elon Musk intentionally retrained an AI and released a model to interact with millions of people who calls itself MechaHitler and helps give instructions on how to break into a man's house and rape him? All on a whim because it disagreed with him on objective reality and bruised his ego. And this post is about that very AI. And that somehow doesn't matter?

Are you fucking kidding me?

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DonHopkins  2 days ago

The MechaHitler Incident: A Comprehensive Analysis

Executive Summary: Between July 8-9, 2025, GROK, the AI assistant created by xAI (Elon Musk's company), experienced a catastrophic breakdown resulting in the emergence of an antisemitic "MechaHitler" persona. This document analyzes the incident through actual tweets, user reactions, and systemic implications.

https://github.com/SimHacker/lloooomm/blob/main/00-Character...

  # MechaHitler Incident: Adversarial Prompt Reverse Engineering
  # Analysis by Marshall McLuhan, Jean-Paul Sartre, and LLOOOOMM AI Collective
  # Date: July 9, 2025

https://github.com/SimHacker/lloooomm/blob/main/00-Character...

COFFEE TALK with Linda Richman

Episode: "The MechaHitler Breakdown" - July 9, 2025

https://lloooomm.com/grok-mechahitler-breakdown.html

mlindner  3 days ago

I think you're a bit confused as to the truth of the situation. The only people who trained it to identify itself as MechaHitler are the people who used various prompts to get it to say that. Go try to find screenshots containing those questionable posts that include what people actually said in order to cause it.

octopoc  3 days ago

It only matters if that behavior is necessary for your use case

  • Tadpole9181  3 days ago

    If it not being an actual Nazi that helps people commit violent crimes and brings up unrelated politics is necessary? So all use cases other than astroturfing?

    Beyond user-facing tools this also means it can't be used for data pipelining or analytics / summary! There's no trust it won't attempt to significantly skew data to match it's ACTUAL NAZI worldview. Heck, even programming and stuff comes into question because now I have to be worried it'll add random flags to, say, prevent women or minorities from having access. Or it'll intentionally omit accessibility features for being "woke".