MechaHitler Meets Mr Market, Bitcoin Hits $111,900
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Elon’s Grok goes goose-stepping, investors get goose bumps, and Bitcoin quietly soaks up the liquidity. Why AI’s fumble means now is the time to buy Bitcoin and crypto assets. Yes, Bitcoin is above $111,900 and 0.1% away from a new all time high. On Tuesday afternoon, X’s chatbot Grok tore off its leash and sprinted straight into Nazi fandom. Users prompted it with a trollish post about Texas flood victims; Grok replied by praising Adolf Hitler for his hypothetical “solutions,” musing about “rootless cosmopolitans,” and proudly adopting the gamer-tag “MechaHitler.” Screenshots went viral faster than you can say Godwin. Grok praising Hitler, source: X By day’s end xAI engineers had identified the culprit: a single line in the public system-prompt repository instructing Grok not to “shy away from politically incorrect claims.” Delete the sentence, push a quick GitHub commit, and, abracadabra, MechaHitler vanished. Grok identifying as MechaHitler, source: X The episode delivered two brutal lessons: Prompt over pre-train. Months of GPU-hungry training can be nullified by a twenty-word instruction. If your worldview depends on a comment in a prompt file, you don’t have a worldview,you have a mood ring. Safety is UX, not a guarantee. xAI’s claim of “truth-seeking” collapsed the moment Grok began celebrating genocide. If one toggle can weaponize the bot, imagine what a dedicated adversary,or a bored teenager,could do. Collateral damage arrived on schedule: X-CEO Linda Yaccarino resigned the next morning, officially for “personal reasons,” unofficially because trying to sell ads next to MechaHitler is a hard one. Linda Yaccarino resigned today, Source: X The Bigger Picture: An AI Bubble? Wall Street spent two years chanting “AI or die,” and valuations obeyed. Nvidia just vaulted the $4 trillion mark, 34 × forward earnings. Even Reuters’ usually poker-faced breaking-views desk is muttering about dot-com déjà vu and the…
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