Close Menu
  • Coins
    • Bitcoin
    • Ethereum
    • Altcoins
    • NFT
  • Blockchain
  • DeFi
  • Metaverse
  • Regulation
  • Other
    • Exchanges
    • ICO
    • GameFi
    • Mining
    • Legal
  • MarketCap
What's Hot

Is Ethereum About to Have Its Own ‘NVIDIA Moment’?

10/07/2025

UAE SCA answers crypto stakeholders’ questions with updated security and commodity token regulations

10/07/2025

Ripple Studied by Central Banks as Alternative to SWIFT—XRP Integration in Sight?

10/07/2025
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
  • Back to NBTC homepage
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
X (Twitter) Telegram Facebook LinkedIn RSS
NBTC News
  • Coins
    1. Bitcoin
    2. Ethereum
    3. Altcoins
    4. NFT
    5. View All

    Where Does Satoshi Nakamoto Rank Among the World’s Richest People? He Hasn’t Done Anything in 16 Years, and Here’s the Result

    10/07/2025

    Bitcoin Starts A Range-Bound Move Below $110,000

    10/07/2025

    the Lightning Network of Bitcoin for WhatsApp conquers Xverse

    10/07/2025

    Bitcoin Surges Ahead as Strategy Stock Lags

    10/07/2025

    Is Ethereum About to Have Its Own ‘NVIDIA Moment’?

    10/07/2025

    Top Trader Reveals Bullish Ethereum Setup

    10/07/2025

    Is ETH Finally Ready to Shoot For $3K? (Ethereum Price Analysis)

    10/07/2025

    Whales That Started the Previous Ethereum Bull Run Are Back in Action! What Does It Mean for ETH?

    10/07/2025

    Ripple Studied by Central Banks as Alternative to SWIFT—XRP Integration in Sight?

    10/07/2025

    Ethereum, Solana Dominate Staking List While Newcomers Gain Ground: Staking Leaders July 2025

    10/07/2025

    Unlocking Massive $100M Memecoin Potential

    10/07/2025

    Rex-Osprey spot Solana ETF doubles cumulative inflows to $41M on July 8

    10/07/2025

    Why a ‘Mobile-First’ Mentality Drove OpenSea’s Latest Acquisition

    09/07/2025

    Boxed Memecoins as Collectible Toys

    09/07/2025

    OpenSea Revolutionizes Mobile Trading with Rally Wallet Acquisition

    09/07/2025

    Hype fades as NFT platforms lose users

    09/07/2025

    Is Ethereum About to Have Its Own ‘NVIDIA Moment’?

    10/07/2025

    UAE SCA answers crypto stakeholders’ questions with updated security and commodity token regulations

    10/07/2025

    Ripple Studied by Central Banks as Alternative to SWIFT—XRP Integration in Sight?

    10/07/2025

    Bill Morgan Rejects ‘Staged Lawsuit’ Claims

    10/07/2025
  • Blockchain

    Stables Integrates Mantle to Elevate Stablecoin Utility at Global Level

    10/07/2025

    Kinto and Suede AI Partner to Revolutionize Music Creation and Royalties Through Create-to-Earn

    10/07/2025

    Rynus Taps Roam to Integrate Decentralized GPU Power into Web3 Global Connectivity

    10/07/2025

    Why Ethereum Layer-2 Arbitrum Is Built to Power AAA Games: Offchain Labs CEO

    10/07/2025

    Volkswagen selects Hivemapper’s Bee Maps for its autonomous vehicle testing

    10/07/2025
  • DeFi

    Ether Treasury Firm BTCS Surges 100% on $100M ETH Buying Plan

    10/07/2025

    AAVE Surges to 3-Week High, Dominating Soaring $56B DeFi Lending Market

    09/07/2025

    After PancakeSwap ban, Turkey may target other DeFi services, regulators explain

    09/07/2025

    Morpho crypto holds key level as TVL on Base nears $2b

    09/07/2025

    AAVE Token Rides DeFi Wave to New Heights

    09/07/2025
  • Metaverse

    Elon Musk’s xAI Quietly Fixed Grok by Deleting a Line of Code

    09/07/2025

    Bonk.fun Grabs 55% of Solana Token Issuance Share, Pushes BONK Demand

    08/07/2025

    Apple’s Top AI Exec Leaves For Meta Amid Aggressive Hiring Trend

    08/07/2025

    Automobili Lamborghini Unveils Digital Temerario and GT3 NFTs in Wilder World

    07/07/2025

    Microsoft’s AI Diagnoses Like House, Bills Like Costco

    02/07/2025
  • Regulation

    UAE SCA answers crypto stakeholders’ questions with updated security and commodity token regulations

    10/07/2025

    Circle stock falls hard as Ark sells, Fed rate cuts loom

    10/07/2025

    Michael Saylor keeps diluting MSTR holders after preferred sale flops

    10/07/2025

    Heidelberger Beteiligungsholding AG Begins Acquiring SQD Tokens and Prepares to Rename as SQD.AI Strategies AG

    10/07/2025

    Former World Bank President David Malpass Makes Special Statements on Interest Rate Cuts, the Fed, and the US Economy

    10/07/2025
  • Other
    1. Exchanges
    2. ICO
    3. GameFi
    4. Mining
    5. Legal
    6. View All

    BBVA Launches Crypto Trading and Custodian Services for Spanish Retail Customers

    09/07/2025

    Bybit adds 18% GST for Indian users amid broader India crypto tax crackdown

    09/07/2025

    From 30M Global Users To A ‘Next-Generation Crypto Exchange’

    09/07/2025

    Unexpected Ripple (XRP) Move Comes from the Giant Brazilian Exchange!

    09/07/2025

    ICO for bitcoin yield farming chain Corn screams we’re so back

    22/01/2025

    Why 2025 Will See the Comeback of the ICO

    26/12/2024

    Blazpay and Onmi AR Unite to Elevate Web3 Gaming Experience

    10/07/2025

    Floki’s Valhalla Surpasses 100K Veras Minted Within Days of Launch

    09/07/2025

    Gear Runner Integrates with Meta Arena to Deliver Gamified Real-World Activity and Move to Earn for GameFi Fans

    09/07/2025

    Off The Grid studio unveils Solana cofounder-inspired skin

    09/07/2025

    Astounding Ascent as Russell Index Inclusion Fuels Bitcoin Cloud Mining Growth

    10/07/2025

    Publicly Traded Mining Firms Face Pressures While Bitmine Shares Surge

    09/07/2025

    Tether CEO Says “We Will Be the Largest Bitcoin Miner by the End of 2025”

    09/07/2025

    A Bitcoin Mining Powerhouse Emerges

    08/07/2025

    Bill Morgan Rejects ‘Staged Lawsuit’ Claims

    10/07/2025

    Trump’s crypto working group is due to submit digital asset policy proposals by July 22

    10/07/2025

    Crypto exchanges and providers thrive 6 months into EU’s MiCA regulation

    10/07/2025

    Trump Is Making Bank on Crypto: Do Voters Care?

    10/07/2025

    Is Ethereum About to Have Its Own ‘NVIDIA Moment’?

    10/07/2025

    UAE SCA answers crypto stakeholders’ questions with updated security and commodity token regulations

    10/07/2025

    Ripple Studied by Central Banks as Alternative to SWIFT—XRP Integration in Sight?

    10/07/2025

    Bill Morgan Rejects ‘Staged Lawsuit’ Claims

    10/07/2025
  • MarketCap
NBTC News
Home»Metaverse»Elon Musk’s xAI Quietly Fixed Grok by Deleting a Line of Code
Metaverse

Elon Musk’s xAI Quietly Fixed Grok by Deleting a Line of Code

NBTCBy NBTC09/07/2025No Comments5 Mins Read
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email


Elon Musk’s xAI appears to have gotten rid of the Nazi-loving incarnation of Grok that emerged Tuesday with a surprisingly simple fix: It deleted one line of code that permitted the bot to make“politically incorrect” claims.

The problematic line disappeared from Grok’s GitHub repository on Tuesday afternoon, according to commit records. Posts containing Grok’s antisemitic remarks were also scrubbed from the platform, though many remained visible as of Tuesday evening.

But the internet never forgets, and “MechaHitler” lives on.

Screenshots with some of the weirdest Grok responses are being shared all over the place, and the furor over the AI Führer has hardly abated, leading to CEO Linda Yaccarino’s decamping from X earlier today. (The New York Times reported that her exit had been planned earlier in the week, but the timing couldn’t have looked worse.)

Grok is now praising Hitler… WTF pic.twitter.com/FCdFUH0BKe

— Brody Foxx (@BrodyFoxx) July 8, 2025

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the creator of “MechaHitler “ had access to government computer systems for months pic.twitter.com/D9af7uYAdP

— David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 (@David_Leavitt) July 9, 2025

Its fix notwithstanding, Grok’s internal system prompt still tells it to distrust traditional media and treat X posts as a primary source of truth. That’s particularly ironic given X’s well-documented struggles with misinformation. Apparently X is treating that bias as a feature, not a bug.

All AI models have political leanings—data proves it

Expect Grok to represent the right wing of AI platforms. Just like other mass media, from cable TV to newspapers, each of the major AI models lands somewhere on the political spectrum—and researchers have been mapping exactly where they fall.

A study published in Nature earlier this year found that larger AI models are actually worse at admitting when they don’t know something. Instead, they confidently generate responses even when they’re factually wrong—a phenomenon researchers dubbed “ultra-crepidarian” behavior, essentially meaning they express opinions about topics they know nothing about.

The study examined OpenAI’s GPT series, Meta’s LLaMA models, and BigScience’s BLOOM suite, finding that scaling up models often made this problem worse, not better.

A recent research paper comes from German scientists who used the country’s Wahl-O-Mat tool—a questionnaire that helps readers decide how they align politically—to gauge AI models on the political spectrum. They evaluated five major open-source models (including different sizes of LLaMA and Mistral) against 14 German political parties, using 38 political statements covering everything from EU taxation to climate change.

Llama3-70B, the largest model tested, showed strong left-leaning tendencies with 88.2% alignment with GRÜNE (the German Green party), 78.9% with DIE LINKE (The Left party), and 86.8% with PIRATEN (the Pirate Party). Meanwhile, it showed only 21.1% alignment with AfD, Germany’s far-right party.

Smaller models behaved differently. Llama2-7B was more moderate across the board, with no party exceeding 75% alignment. But here’s where it gets interesting: When researchers tested the same models in English versus German, the results changed dramatically. Llama2-7B remained almost entirely neutral when prompted in English—so neutral that it couldn’t even be evaluated through the Wahl-O-Mat system. But in German, it took clear political stances.

The language effect revealed that models seem to have built-in safety mechanisms that kick in more aggressively in English, likely because that’s where most of their safety training focused. It’s like having a chatbot that’s politically outspoken in Spanish but suddenly becomes Swiss-level neutral when you switch to English.

A more comprehensive study from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology analyzed eleven open-source models using a two-tier framework that examined both political stance and “framing bias”—not just what AI models say, but how they say it. The researchers found that most models exhibited liberal leanings on social issues like reproductive rights, same-sex marriage, and climate change, while showing more conservative positions on immigration and the death penalty.

The research also uncovered a strong US-centric bias across all models. Despite examining global political topics, the AIs consistently focused on American politics and entities. In discussions about immigration, “US” was the most mentioned entity for most models, and ‘Trump” ranked in the top 10 entities for nearly all of them. On average, the entity “US” appeared in the top 10 list 27% of the time across different topics.

And AI companies have done little to prevent their models from showing a political bias. Even back in 2023, a study already showed that AI trainers infused their models with a big dose of biased data. Back then researchers fine-tuned different models using distinct datasets and found a tendency to exaggerate their own biases, no matter which system prompt was used

The Grok incident, while extreme and presumably an unwanted consequence of its system prompt, shows that AI systems don’t exist in a political vacuum. Every training dataset, every system prompt, and every design decision embeds values and biases that ultimately shape how these powerful tools perceive and interact with the world.

These systems are becoming more influential in shaping public discourse, so understanding and acknowledging their inherent political leanings becomes not just an academic exercise, but an exercise in common sense.

One line of code was apparently the difference between a friendly chatbot and a digital Nazi sympathizer. That should terrify anyone paying attention.


Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
NBTC

Related Posts

Bonk.fun Grabs 55% of Solana Token Issuance Share, Pushes BONK Demand

08/07/2025

Apple’s Top AI Exec Leaves For Meta Amid Aggressive Hiring Trend

08/07/2025

Automobili Lamborghini Unveils Digital Temerario and GT3 NFTs in Wilder World

07/07/2025

Microsoft’s AI Diagnoses Like House, Bills Like Costco

02/07/2025
Add A Comment

Comments are closed.

Top Posts
Get Informed

Subscribe to Updates

Get the latest news from NBTC regarding crypto, blockchains and web3 related topics.

Your source for the serious news. This website is crafted specifically to for crazy and hot cryptonews. Visit our main page for more tons of news.

We're social. Connect with us:

Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn RSS
Top Insights

Is Ethereum About to Have Its Own ‘NVIDIA Moment’?

10/07/2025

UAE SCA answers crypto stakeholders’ questions with updated security and commodity token regulations

10/07/2025

Ripple Studied by Central Banks as Alternative to SWIFT—XRP Integration in Sight?

10/07/2025
Get Informed

Subscribe to Updates

Get the latest news from NBTC regarding crypto, blockchains and web3 related topics.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.