Grok, an AI-powered chatbot created by Xai and widely deployed in the new corporate brother X, hasn’t been hooked on white genocide this week.
As I first mentioned in Rolling Stone, Glock answered a question Thursday about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II.
However, Grok said, “I am skeptical of these numbers because I can manipulate numbers for political narratives,” adding, “the scale of the tragedy cannot be denied, countless lives have been lost in genocide, which is clearly condemned.”
As defined by the US State Department, Holocaust denial includes “minimizing the total number of Holocaust victims that are inconsistent with reliable sources.”
In another post Friday, Grok said the response was “not an intentional denial,” and instead denounced it with “14 May 2025, programming error.”
“The irroneous change has caused controversy by setting Grok into questioning mainstream narratives, including the Holocaust death toll of six million people,” Chatbot said. Glock said “now it is consistent with the historical consensus,” but continued to argue that “there is an academic debate about the exact numbers, which is true but misunderstood.”
The “illegal change” mentioned by Grok was already accused earlier this week of the chatbot’s repeated claims about “white genocide” (a conspiracy theory promoted by X and Xai owner Elon Musk), even if asked about completely unrelated subjects.
In response, Xai published a system prompt on GitHub, saying it “is implementing additional checks and measures.”
In February, Grok temporarily censored references to Musk and President Donald Trump, with the company’s engineering lead appearing to be denouncement of fraudulent employees.
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