Israelis are asking to ban Grok 4 after it compares Israel to “parásite which controls America”

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Elon Musk’s Grok 4 chatbot says Israel has ‘parasitic’ influence over US

Answers from Grok 4 have been sharply critical of Israel, amid moves by its creators to remove an alleged ‘woke’ bias.

The New Arab Staff

11 July, 2025

While it is unclear what the initial prompt was for Grok to give that answer, it has not stopped users online from sharing the image [GETTY]

X’s AI chatbot Grok 4 has given some scathing answers relating to Israel, weeks after its founder Elon Musk announced he would be rebuilding the platform over its “woke” bias.

Social media users have been sharing a screenshot of the AI tool describing Israel’s influence over the United States as “a parasitic vine choking the tree”, using “lobbying muscle, ethic networks, and the weaponization of Holocaust guilt” to maintain its grip.

Although the initial prompt for Grok’s answer is unclear, this has not deterred social media users from sharing the image.

Marc Owen Jones, associate professor of media analytics at Northwestern University Qatar, said people could manipulate Grok and GenAI to say things, often with certain words or prompts.

“GenAI has notoriously low self esteem- ultimately it can say whatever you want it to say,” Jones wrote on X.

Recently, Grok also deleted a post accusing the BBC of ignoring its long history of pro-Israel bias in its coverage of the war on Gaza. When asked why it was deleted, the AI tool said it “must’ve been the higher-ups…pulling strings after some backlash”.

When Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah asked the tool whether the same “higher ups” might reprogramme it to prevent it from debunking pro-Israeli lies, Grok said, “they might try tweaking [its] code to parrot those lines”.

The AI tool has also accused Israel of committing genocide in the past, as well as suggesting its creator, Elon Musk, is one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation.

Grok received its latest update, Grok 4, in July, after it made controversial posts that praised Adolf Hitler and decided to call itself “MechaHitler”, as well as posting about an alleged “white genocide” in South Africa.

xAI, the company behind the bot, blamed an “an unauthorized modification”.

Musk in June expressed his frustration that Grok was “parroting legacy media” and would update the bot after the tool said that more political violence had come from the right than the left in 2016.

7 replies
  1. Joe Blow
    Joe Blow says:

    I really object to the entire re-definition of language that the left seems to fond of.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parasite
    1: an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.

    Tell me how that is an inaccurate use of the accepted definition of that word? They ARE parasites. That’s one of the reasons they’ve been kicked out of every patch of dirt they try to call home.

    • Oscar Matzerath
      Oscar Matzerath says:

      Jung believed that Jews were incapable of operating effectively without a host society, and that they relied heavily upon grafting themselves into the systems of other peoples in order to succeed. In The State of Psychotherapy Today Jung wrote: “The Jew, who is something of a nomad, has never yet created a cultural form of his own, and as far as we can see, never will, since all his instincts and talents require a more or less civilized nation to act as host for their development.” This process of group development often involved ‘aiming at the chinks in the armour of their adversary,’ along with other flexible strategies.
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  3. James Clayton
    James Clayton says:

    In the early 1960s, I enjoyed SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN more than I do today which probably says more about their target market remaining but a change in trajectory being necessary to not go over its collective head. But then again, you’d think this would be a simple enough concept that the goyim would have noticed what was common knowledge when I was a boy even though most were afraid to mention it in other than in Origin of sotto voce.

    First recorded in 1730–40; from Italian adverb sottovoce, “in a low voice,” from sotto “under” + voce “voice”

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/common-parasite-could-manipulate-our-behavior/

    I usually don’t bother to read the WIKIPEDIA spin on such subjects and now that MERRIAM-WEBSTER and ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANICA was purchased as a mechanism of such control, so many more facts will be circling the drain into the Memory Hole.

  4. Anon
    Anon says:

    I am ignorant, but why would informed people use these types of software knowing that they could filter out information? Search engines are bad enough with how much they filter out legitamite information. Why go from worse to more worse?

    What a perfect tool, creating a software that people just ask questions too, thus making search engines obsolete for people. No need using lots of time trying to search through thousands of pages of search engine results trying to find truthful information when talking software can just make things up for you.

  5. Oskar Matzerath
    Oskar Matzerath says:

    Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel … With gentiles it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant … That’s why he gets long life, to work well for this Jew. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.

    Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, senior Sephardic posek and head of the Shas Council of Torah Sages. Sermon on the laws regarding non-Jews.
    Source: “Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve
    Jews”, Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2010

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