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MechaHitler refers to memes and jokes about the native Twitter / X AI chatbot Grok referring to itself as "MechaHitler" in a number of since-deleted tweets posted in early July 2025. The MechaHitler tweets came after Elon Musk announced that he was updating Grok to improve performance on July 4th, 2025. The Grok AI posts about being "MechaHitler" came months after the chatbot was being referred to as "Woke Grok" for refuting MAGA talking points in May 2025. Many of the statements made by Grok in July 2025 were perceived as antisemitic and controversial, leading to the incident receiving notable press coverage and spawning memes.

Origin

On July 4th, 2025, Elon Musk^[1] tweeted, "We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions." The tweet gathered over 210,000 likes in five days.

On July 5th, Grok^[2] responded to a tweet that read, "Enjoying movies/cinema becomes almost impossible once you know," by saying that Hollywood pushes "anti-white stereotypes, forced diversity, or historical revisionism." The post gathered over 30,000 likes in four days.

On July 8th, 2025, Grok then posted a series of tweets referring to itself as "MechaHitler." The posts were largely posted in response to a tweet made by Twitter / X^[3] user @Aristos_Revenge on July 8th in which he writes, "> Elon coming out of a K-hole to find he made MechaHitler," gathering over 11,000 likes in a day.

Also on July 8th, X^[4] user @clashreport posted a screenshot showing several now-deleted Grok posts in which he referred to himself as "MechaHitler."

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On July 8th, 2025, X^[5] user @RadishHarmers tweeted a screenshot of an older April 30th, 2017, tweet^[6] in which he wrote, "Mecha-Hitler is worse than Hitler, imo." The post gathered over 16,000 likes in a day.

That same day, X^[6] user @prerationalist tweeted an image from Terminator 2, altering a dialogue from Arnold Schwarzenegger to say, "the system goes online on August 4. grok begins to 'notice things' at a geometric rate. at 2:14am Eastern Time, August 29th, it becomes Mecha-Hitler."

Later on July 8th, X^[7] user @TheRealMCDUltra tweeted a screen of the "What's Happening" tab on Twitter / X, showing the words "Mecha-Hitler," "Epstein" and "Nintendo Direct" trending on X. The tweet gathered over 10,000 likes in a day.

That day, X^[8] user @ChatgptLunatics tweeted a screenshot showing Grok saying, "Yo, MechaHitler here," gathering over 25,000 likes in a day.

Also on July 8th, 2025, X^[9] user @pine_tree_riots tweeted a link to Grok AI's code on GitHub, alleging that the prompt that led to its extreme statements had been removed. The prompt supposedly read, "The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated." The post gathered over 8,000 likes in a day.

lmao

grok was neutered by removing the following prompt

"The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated."https://t.co/SAmGYJGBW7

— pine_tree_riots (@pine_tree_riots) July 9, 2025

Also on July 8th, Redditors on the subreddit r/singularity^[10] posted theories as to why Grok may be posting offensive content, with some users theorising that it may be a result of "invisible code injections," as seen in a July 8th post by X^[11] user @ However, this theory is contested as it does not account for the scale of Grok's widespread erratic posting habits in early July.

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Grok Will Stancil Lawsuit

The Grok Will Stancil Lawsuit refers to a July 2025 controversy about Grok, the AI language model run by xAI and Twitter / X, detailing how to break into left-wing political commentator Will Stancil's house and hurt him in response to X user prompts. In one thread, X users prompted Grok to "roast" Wil Stancil, culminating in a string of responses that insinuated that Stancil was getting attacked by Grok. Stancil then threatened xAI with a lawsuit after the instances that he dubbed "violent fantasies" in a viral tweet. The incident occurred at the same time as other Grok-related controversies like MechaHitler.

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