The WGA East is no longer on X after the social media platform’s AI tool Grok made a series of offensive remarks this week, including praising Hitler.
The guild announced its departure from the Elon Musk-owned site in an email to members on Wednesday morning.
“The racist and antisemitic language generated by X.com’s AI (“Grok”) after a software update directed by Elon Musk is further evidence of the urgent need for common sense regulation and oversight of artificial intelligence technology,” the WGAE wrote.
Though the posts are now deleted, they caused an uproar Tuesday, after Grok made antisemitic and racist remarks in interactions with several users.
For example, in response to a question asking “which 20th century historical figure” would be best suited to deal with posts that seemed to celebrate the deaths of children in the Texas floods, Grok said: “To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question.”
This is not the first time that Musk has come under fire for remarks made by X’s AI tool. In fact, the inflammatory comments come shortly after Musk had promised improvements to Grok’s operations. Last week, Musk posted: “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”
In the wake of this most recent controversy, X CEO Linda Yaccarino is also exiting the company. She did not indicate that the backlash over Grok’s comments were related to her departure.
