“The Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng on Wednesday mocked billionaire Elon Musk after Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot on his X platform, went on an antisemitic tear and praised Adolf Hitler in a number of shocking replies.
“At the end of the day, the person I feel worse for is Elon. I mean, he just wanted to improve his AI to help humanity and then somehow, completely by accident, it just went full Nazi on him,” Chieng said.
“Elon, my heart goes out to you,” he added, evoking Musk’s remarks during his widely condemned salute at an inauguration rally for President Donald Trump.
Earlier in the monologue, Chieng highlighted Musk’s issues with the chatbot last month after it told an X user that data indicated right-wing violence was “more frequent and deadly” than violence from left-wingers since 2016.
The billionaire claimed at the time that the bot was “parroting legacy media” and he was looking to fix it.
Chieng joked that the billionaire could only “embarrass” himself and his fixes shouldn’t be too hard for him since he’s a “genius.”
“He’s going to rewrite the code, put his semen inside of it, fire some cancer researchers and call it a day,” he said.
Following a reported update where Grok was instructed to embrace being “politically incorrect,” the chatbot called itself “MechaHitler,” made a reference to the Holocaust and at times doubled down on antisemitic posts.
The platform would later say it was “aware” of Grok’s “inappropriate posts” and was working to delete them. They’ve since appeared to be scrubbed off the platform.
“Was there really nothing in between woke and ‘MechaHitler’? I mean, I knew AI would be coming for our jobs but I didn’t expect the job to be ‘führer,’” Chieng quipped.
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Watch Chieng’s Wednesday monologue on “The Daily Show” below.
