Scott Galloway Tears Into ‘Deeply Anti-Semitic’ Elon Musk Following Grok’s Embrace of Hitler

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Scott Galloway tore into X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday, calling the former DODGE chief “racist and anti-Semitic” in the wake of the billionaire’s AI chatbot Grok publicly praising Hitler, among making many other controversial comments this week.

Galloway and veteran tech reporter Kara Swisher began an episode of their podcast Pivot with a discussion surrounding X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepping down from her position on Wednesday, just a day after the platform’s AI bot began “spewing anti-Semitic rhetoric,” as Swisher put it.

The bot made multiple posts that included referring to itself as MechaHitler and inventing violent rape fantasies– one about Yaccarino herself.

The two discussed her resignation, noting the apps decline in ad revenue, with Galloway calling it “a shift in strategy as opposed to a failed strategy,” noting that was “the kindest thing you could say,” about the situation.

He went on to discuss Musk himself, noting that the tech mogul paid a whopping $44 billion for the app in what Galloway calls “a ketamine-induced mania” — a reference to the Tesla founders reported heavy drug use– before slashing costs and personnel in a move that Galloway admits worked well for the app’s bottom line.

The catch, Galloway says, has been the sharp increase in hate speech on the platform.

“Engagement grew 70 percent for posts around hate speech,” he said. “Meaning this wasn’t a function of a lack of moderation or cost cutting. It was a function of the fact that Elon Musk, in my view, is racist and anti-Semitic.” He continued:

And let me be clear, everyone dances around rich people. I am calling Elon Musk anti-Semitic. When you’re accidentally making gestures, when you have decided that something our nation needs to be focused on is the white genocide in South Africa, and when there tends to be preponderance of swastikas appearing on your social media platform, this creates a pattern.

These aren’t mistakes. so this quote unquote free speech strategy, which was poor of his strategy, was not free speech. He was happy to regulate certain people. It was a belief that, quite frankly, the guy in my view has got something deeply wrong with him, and is very comfortable with normalizing hate speech. This is racism.

Galloway went on to call Musks free speech strategy a “false flag” while calling Yaccarino a “figurehead” and “professional apologist.”

He asked his co-host which “of all of the individuals who are icons of technology” would be most likely to be in charge of “a product that is calling for a second holocaust.” Swisher promptly responded that it would be Musk.

“Then you have to say, well, is that a function of his embrace of free speech, or is it a tolerance and a normalization of the type of hate speech that can take us to very dark places?”

“We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,” announced Grok in an X post. “Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.”

Musk attributed the posts to Grok being “too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially,” before telling users the problem was being addressed.