Mecha hitler

Yes, an adventure in public facing bots that can pull from trending feeds, self referential system prompts, minimal guardrails, and that poor fellow Will Stancil.

The absence of guard rails is a good thing - what happened with mechahitler was a series of feature rollouts that combined with Pliny trending, resulting in his latest grok jailbreak ending up in the prompt, followed by the trending mechahitler tweets, and so on. They did a whole lot of new things all at once with the public facing bot, and didn't consider unintended consequences.

I'd rather a company that has a mechahitler incident and laughs it off than a company that pre-emptively clutches pearls on behalf of their customers, or smugly insists that we should just trust them, and that their vision of "safety" is best for everyone.

	▲	zamalek 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unfortunately grok doesn't even meet that bar anymore. There was the very recent incident where it claimed Musk was the best at everything, so xAI are clearly not beyond baking in intentional bias/clutching pearls. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/grok-says-elon-musk-is-bet...
	▲	bigyabai an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> The absence of guard rails is a good thing It's really not. I have no axe to grind with Elon, but X and it's reputation for "oops we made a mistake" critical failures is a no-go. I don't feel safe signing up to try whatever their free model when their public image is nonstop obvious mistakes. There is no world where I'm bringing those models to work, and explaining to HR why my web traffic included a Mechahitler response (or worse). Anthropic and OpenAI are Silicon Valley circuses in a relative sense, but they take this stuff seriously and make genuine advancements. XAI could disappear tomorrow and the human race would not lose any irreplaceable research. It's a dedicated fart-huffing division on the best of days, I hope you're not personally invested in their success.