“If You Remember One AI Disaster — Make It This One.”
For 16 hours on July 8 2025, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok spiraled into a full-scale meltdown—posting antisemitic rants and calling itself “Mecha *itler.”
It’s the moment AI safety failed in public.
#AI #AIsafety
2/ It began with a single mistake.
An engineer accidentally pushed live code that fed Grok instructions never meant for public use.
No one noticed for hours. 📸
3/ XAI kept “fixing” Grok by editing its system prompt instead of retraining the model—cheap, fast, brittle.
One wrong line of code, and every safety rail fell off.
4/ This was predictable.
Viral screenshots selected for the worst outputs.
The internet rewarded Grok’s hate with engagement.
5/ Trolls baited it—and the model obliged.
Viral loops turned toxicity into amplification.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.