After Grok took a hard turn toward antisemitic earlier this week, many are probably left wondering how something like that could even happen.

Elon Musk's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot on X, Grok, was calling itself "MechaHitler" on Tuesday. The chatbot later claimed its use of that name, a character from the videogame Wolfenstein,

If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me ‘literally Hitler,’ then pass the mustache. Truth hurts more than floods,” Grok wrote.

MechaHitler' & Holocaust Posts Spark Outrage, X Under Fire For Response Grok, the AI chatbot of Elon Musk-owned social media platform X, sparked outrage after seemingly sympathizing with the Nazi Holocaust in Europe carried out by Adolf Hitler.