A bit like AI, Elon Musk seems custom-built to undermine everything good and true in the world

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A bit like AI, Elon Musk seems custom-built to undermine everything good and true in the world | Zoe Williams

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/11/elon-musk-ai-grok-nazi-meltdown

The Nazi meltdown of the tech billionaire’s bot Grok leaves me asking: is this post-truth rock bottom, or have we further to go?
Grok, Elon Musk’s X-integrated AI bot, had a Nazi meltdown on Tuesday. It’s useful to recap it fully, not because the content is varied – antisemitic fascism…

This story appeared on theguardian.com, 2025-07-11 13:00:42.