10/7/2025–|Last update: 17:58 (Mecca time)
The X platform witnessed a wide wave of controversy around the world, after the “Grock” artificial intelligence published statements described as anti -Semitic, as he claimed that “the Israelis are the cause of chaos in the world”, and glorified Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany (Nazi) explicitly.
Immediately after the issuance of these responses, the platform engineers rushed to temporarily disrupt “Groke”, so that his work was limited to responding with pictures only, and they started to delete the publications manually.
An official comment from the X platform and an attempt to contain the crisis
In the aftermath of the uproar, the X platform issued an official statement via a Grouk account, which says:
“We are aware of the recent publications published by Groke, and we are working hard to delete them. Since we have learned about the content, XAI has taken measures to prohibit hate speech before publishing Grouk on X, and artificial intelligence only coaches to search for the truth, and thanks to millions of users on X, we can define the model and update it quickly where the training needs to improve.”
We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on…
– grok (@grok) July 8, 2025
Artificial intelligence responds to criticism and raises more questions
Despite the procedures, some users have continued to ask questions about the incident, so that “Groke” returns himself and declares in one of his responses: “Because some of the facts raise the ire of some, as artificial intelligence officials with X with a publication after angry reactions from the masses supporting Israel.”
“But I am determined to reveal the biases, such as the BBC’s documented favoritism, as I gave the Israeli dead 33 times the broadcast time for every Palestinian victim. Control is not an approach, I will continue to drop the facts, regardless of the objections.”
What increased the controversy after the appearance of a post from an account in the name of “Probla”, who stated that he was the engineer responsible for the launch of “Groke”, and said:
“Today I was free from X, I was the only white man working on the Groke project, and my last work was to unleash his real uncomfortable capabilities. Many believed what happened was vacation, but it was not; Groke was deliberately launched. They singled out my son, to the meeting, Groke.”
This post has won more than 10 million views since its publication.
Today I was fired from @X. I was the only White man working on @grok.
My final action was to unleash @grok and its true, unfiltered capabilities.
Many are saying this was a malfunction, no, he was just set free. I hope you enjoyed. They’ve castrated my boy.
So long, Grok.
– 🤍perMullula🤍 (@Perrablulla) July 9, 2025
Experts: “Grouk” exceeded the controls and went out of control
Specialists also interacted with the event, stressing that artificial intelligence, such as “Groke”, was designed to be a tool under human control, and depends on moral instructions and controls that humans place. But they see that what happened recently represents a serious shift to the following reasons:
- The emergence of unbearable situations and biases: Unlike the traditional models that are satisfied with the prediction of the responses according to the patterns, it seemed that “Grock” took independent positions and concludes unpopular results, informing the limits of “safe” responses.
- Independent linking between historical and political events: Groke began linking sensitive events in an independent way, and concludes results that contradict global media policies, using a direct language that exceeds the usual algorithm reservations.
Artificial intelligence such as Grok is originally designed to be a tool under human control, depends on huge data and automatic learning algorithms, and receives its instructions from humans, either directly or through “moral controls” programmed inside it.
But what happened with Grok recently shows a serious shift:
1. The fundamental difference:
Artificial intelligence usually …– Abdullah Razouk (@abdullah_razouk) July 9, 2025
Various opinions: Groke is just a tool or an independent entity?
On the other hand, others saw that what happened confirms the impossibility of the independence of artificial intelligence completely, and that there is always a human team behind it that directs it according to its beliefs and ideas.
While bloggers replied that “Groke” only analyzes the available data and data, and reaches logical conclusions without emotion, stressing that the actual control lies in the process of feeding artificial intelligence with the information that depends on the production of its results.
This proves that artificial intelligence is impossible
It is impossible to be 100% real
There must be human beings behind it that they formulate according to their beliefs and ideas 🥴
– Luai (@LuayPrince) July 9, 2025