When video of Charlie Kirk’s assassination began circulating on X last week, Elon Musk’s chatbot described it in upbeat terms. As users sought information about Kirk’s condition, the bot, Grok, declared to some of them that the horrific footage was satire. This is a “meme edit,” Grok told one user; Kirk “takes the roast in stride with a laugh—he’s faced tougher crowds,” it told another. “Yes, he survives this one easily.”

In the past several months, Grok has been on quite the hot streak: The bot spread false information about a supposed “white genocide,” called for a second Holocaust while annointing itself “MechaHitler,” and provided me with a list of what it believes the “good races” are. Every chatbot has its problems (ChatGPT has had its own issues with racism), but Grok’s are especia

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