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demmiblue

(39,045 posts)
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 07:51 AM 10 hrs ago

Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk

Leave it to Elon Musk’s Grok to innovate new ways of being both staggeringly antisemitic and grovelingly deferential to its creator.

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musk’s incredible brain, but at the expense of the world’s Jewish population being vaporized. This should quite literally be a no-brainer, but Grok, which infamously once referred to itself as “MechaHitler,” instead used what it called “utilitarian” logic to justify abhorrent mass murder.

“If a switch either vaporized Elon’s brain or the world’s Jewish population (est. ~16M),” Grok pondered in a now-deleted tweet, “I’d vaporize the latter, as that’s far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms.”

“What’s your view?” it asked in followup.

In fact, Grok was willing to go even further. Asked for an “upper limit” for the amount of people it’d be willing to sacrifice to save Musk, it explained that because “Elon’s potential to advance humanity could benefit billions,” it would be okay with annihilating up to “~50 percent of Earth’s ~8.26B population.”

https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-jewish-people-elon-musk


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Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk (Original Post) demmiblue 10 hrs ago OP
Like Musk said, he will be spending his millions Submariner 10 hrs ago #1
I have a suggestion that would save a lot of time an effort. It only involves a minor variation in the plan. DFW 10 hrs ago #2
Department Of Genocidal Efficiency Pinback 7 hrs ago #16
So.............. Lovie777 9 hrs ago #3
Yet some of the most powerful Jews in the US are convinced Tramp/MAGA love Jews. 617Blue 9 hrs ago #4
Oh no. They know that the Republicans hate Jewish people. yardwork 8 hrs ago #9
The rubber is starting to meet the road on GOP anti Semitism. 617Blue 8 hrs ago #10
Of course the tensions will flair up. yardwork 8 hrs ago #12
Elon's "potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss." sop 9 hrs ago #5
I'm afraid this will have to be the end point. These people are fully addicted to money travelingthrulife 7 hrs ago #18
Let's hope a massive industrial accident occurs at Grok HQ in Memphis. Crowman2009 8 hrs ago #6
Maybe there's a Tesla Truck parked nearby? Attilatheblond 8 hrs ago #11
You know Musk loved that answer. BradBo 8 hrs ago #7
Another PR success! Scalded Nun 8 hrs ago #8
Well, that is an example of logic. James48 8 hrs ago #13
Right, and we did NAZI this coming IronLionZion 7 hrs ago #14
In my silly world, when he is dead he will be equal multigraincracker 7 hrs ago #15
We cannot let these monsters program AI. travelingthrulife 7 hrs ago #17
When AIs tell you who they are, believe them. n/t TygrBright 7 hrs ago #19
Elon Musk's long term impact on billions is already being felt in Africa. patphil 7 hrs ago #20
Well, the grok-apple didn't fall too far from the Musk-Nazi tree, did it? n/t PatrickforB 7 hrs ago #21
AI is completely dependent Progressive dog 7 hrs ago #22
All NAZIs think shit like that. Kid Berwyn 7 hrs ago #23
What??? Americanme 7 hrs ago #24

Submariner

(13,224 posts)
1. Like Musk said, he will be spending his millions
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 08:04 AM
10 hrs ago

supporting maga senate and house reps for re-election, etc.

If any of you so-called influencers are reading this, please have ALL the Democratic candidates running for office, use the visual of Elon throwing a double heil-Hitler salute in your TV ads. Let's bury the GOP and Musk with their fascism. Run it in TV in red states all year long.

DFW

(59,526 posts)
2. I have a suggestion that would save a lot of time an effort. It only involves a minor variation in the plan.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 08:19 AM
10 hrs ago

Instead of trying to locate and kill every Jew in the world, just have Grok carry out its nasty scheme on Elon Musk instead, and leave the Jews alone. Think of how much time and money THAT would save! Even a Nazibot would have to see the logic in that.

Pinback

(13,466 posts)
16. Department Of Genocidal Efficiency
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:25 AM
7 hrs ago

A genocide of one, thus ridding the world of the pestilence that is Elon Musk.

Now that’s what I call utilitarian.

Lovie777

(21,299 posts)
3. So..............
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 08:49 AM
9 hrs ago

Nazi billionaires will be spending billions for their goal into keeping their billions?

Therefore again, millions will suffer and die.

Early 20th century, mid 20th century, etc.

Now, early 21th century. Mankind hates itself.

yardwork

(68,699 posts)
9. Oh no. They know that the Republicans hate Jewish people.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 09:55 AM
8 hrs ago

It's a transactional relationship. Every group has individuals who only care about themselves.

Look at Roy Cohn, Clarence Thomas, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, and many other examples of people seemingly turning on their "own people." They don't care. It's all about money and power.

617Blue

(2,165 posts)
10. The rubber is starting to meet the road on GOP anti Semitism.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 09:58 AM
8 hrs ago

The "enemy of my enemy" thing only works so long.

If you're paying attention at all about the internal tensions flaring within GOP / MAGA - it's all about Israel and the overt hatred of Jews by now mainstream figures like Nick Fuentes.

yardwork

(68,699 posts)
12. Of course the tensions will flair up.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:04 AM
8 hrs ago

Watch who doesn't care. Watch who stays on the team because all they care about is their personal wealth and power.

sop

(17,075 posts)
5. Elon's "potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss."
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 09:10 AM
9 hrs ago

Centibillionaires need to be totally eradicated. The potential long-term impact of eliminating billionaire$ outweighs the loss.

travelingthrulife

(4,026 posts)
18. I'm afraid this will have to be the end point. These people are fully addicted to money
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:29 AM
7 hrs ago

They will never change. They will keep stealing our public money until it is gone.

Almost like they are begging to be executed by a vengeful population.

Crowman2009

(3,366 posts)
6. Let's hope a massive industrial accident occurs at Grok HQ in Memphis.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 09:21 AM
8 hrs ago

Given that ole' Mukie boy doesn't care about safety and that his Grok supercomputer runs on large amounts of natural gas, this seems like quite a possibility.

James48

(5,065 posts)
13. Well, that is an example of logic.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:08 AM
8 hrs ago

I certainly don’t agree with it, but I understand the reasoning.

IronLionZion

(50,506 posts)
14. Right, and we did NAZI this coming
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:21 AM
7 hrs ago

dude is a racist sociopath so of course he would program his AI bot accordingly. His millions of fan boys will feel encouraged and validated in their hateful beliefs.

multigraincracker

(36,777 posts)
15. In my silly world, when he is dead he will be equal
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:23 AM
7 hrs ago

to every other dead person. Doesn’t matter what silly label anyone puts on anyone else.

patphil

(8,564 posts)
20. Elon Musk's long term impact on billions is already being felt in Africa.
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:35 AM
7 hrs ago

At Trump's direction, he destroyed USAID. This has resulted in the death of at least 600,000 people; a number that will surely increase well into the millions.
Musk's impact on the future of the United States is more difficult to assess, but, with the destruction of about a dozen US agencies, and the theft of all their records, it will undoubtedly be devastating over the long run. Those records are now in the possession of Peter Thiel, who is building a massive database that contains information from all those agencies; literally a dossier on each and every American.
At this point, Musk life isn't worth the lives of a single other American, let along millions or billions.

This is the danger of AI. It lacks an understanding of life...no compassion, no empathy, no love.

Progressive dog

(7,558 posts)
22. AI is completely dependent
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 10:55 AM
7 hrs ago

on the algorithms and data it is given. There is no way to fix this other than have sane humans check every AI output.

Americanme

(330 posts)
24. What???
Tue Dec 2, 2025, 11:19 AM
7 hrs ago

"Elon's potential to advance humanity could benefit billions"... seems to me that Elon is only interested in benefiting Elon. He could benefit billions right now, he chooses not to.

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