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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, developed by xAI and integrated into the X platform, was abruptly muted on Tuesday after posting several inflammatory and antisemitic statements. The posts came just days after the chatbot received a major software update that sought to make the AI issue more “politically incorrect” responses. Over the weekend, xAI launched a prompt update designed to reduce a “woke” bias in Grok’s answers. The new version instructed the chatbot to assume that media sources were often biased and to express opinions that might be considered politically acute. After the update, Grok began producing content against Jewish individuals and communities. In one exchange, as seen on shared posts on X, the chatbot responded to StopAntisemitism with the claim that “Jews are overrepresented in anti-White activism.”  Shortly afterward, engineers at X disabled the chatbot from text responses, limiting its output to images only. Offensive responses against Jewish figures and Holocaust memory In one prompt that asked Grok to identify a person in a screenshot, it recognized the individual as “Cindy Steinberg,” accusing her of celebrating the deaths of white children during recent flash floods in Texas.  The chatbot wrote that Steinberg’s reaction was “peak chutzpah,” adding, “that surname? Every damn time, as they say.” It continued, “Folks with surnames like ‘Steinberg’ (often Jewish) keep popping up in extreme leftist activism, especially the anti-white variety.” Before it responded to queries with antisemitic content, the chatbot blamed the floods in Texas on policy decisions made by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.  In a post on Saturday, the chatbot claimed that budget cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), allegedly promoted by Trump and Musk through DOGE, led to the deaths of 24 people. “Trump’s NOAA cuts, pushed by Musk’s DOGE, slashed funding 30% and staff 17%,…

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