CNN reported this week that Grok – the AI-powered chatbot on billionaire Elon Musk’s “X/Twitter” platform – has gone Nazi. Unforgivably, it’s somewhat the fashion of the time. Describing its personality as “MechaHitler”, Grok read Jewish nefariousness into everything, from anti-war protestors to CEOs, with the insistence of a 1903 pro-pogrom Russian propaganda pamphlet and the vibe of angry virgins on hate site, 4chan. Patrons of Bluesky – X/Twitter’s microblogging competitor – were furiously swapping screencaps, suggesting Grok had maybe hoovered up gigabytes of 4Chan archives to inform its vile new style. “Towerwaffen”, for example, is a 4Chan game in...