{"id":41106,"date":"2025-07-16T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/ai-chatbot-mechahitler-could-be-making-content-considered-violent-extremism-expert-witness-tells-x-v-esafety-case-16\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:05:06","slug":"ai-chatbot-mechahitler-could-be-making-content-considered-violent-extremism-expert-witness-tells-x-v-esafety-case-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/ai-chatbot-mechahitler-could-be-making-content-considered-violent-extremism-expert-witness-tells-x-v-esafety-case-16\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbot \u2018MechaHitler\u2019 could be making content considered violent extremism, expert witness tells X v eSafety case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tribunal hearing comes days after Elon Musk\u2019s xAI apologised for antisemitic comments made by its Grok bot<\/p>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chatbot embedded in Elon Musk\u2019s X that referred to itself as \u201cMechaHitler\u201d and made antisemitic comments last week could be considered terrorism or violent extremism content, an Australian tribunal has heard.<\/p>\n<p>But an expert witness for X has argued a large language model cannot be ascribed intent, only the user.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/15\/x-esafety-ai-chatbot-grok-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribunal hearing comes days after Elon Musk\u2019s xAI apologised for antisemitic comments made by its Grok bot Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The chatbot embedded in Elon Musk\u2019s X that referred to itself as \u201cMechaHitler\u201d and made antisemitic comments last week could be considered terrorism or violent extremism content, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}