This has been a banner month for X. Last week, the social network's built-in chatbot, Grok, became strangely obsessed with false claims about 'white genocide' in South Africa'allegedly because someone made an 'unauthorized modification' to its code at 3:15 in the morning. The week prior, Ye (formerly Kanye West) released a single called 'Heil Hitler' on the platform. The chorus includes the line 'Heil Hitler, they don't understand the things I say on Twitter.' West has frequently posted anti-Semitic rants on the platform and, at one point back in February, said he identified as a Nazi. (Yesterday on X, West said he was 'done with antisemitism,' though he has made such apologies before; in any case, the single has already been viewed tens of millions of times on X.) These incidents feel all too natural for Elon Musk's social network. Even without knowing the precise technical reason Grok decided to do its best Alex Jones impression, the fact that it became monomaniacally obsessed...
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