It’s also time for decent people in general to leave too, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

If you haven’t heard, Grok, X’s LLM (which should probably be called a Large Hitler Model) had a long outburst of antisemitism last weekend. There’s no doubt here: these posts were straight out antisemitism (hell, even the ADL condemned it!).

The antisemitism alone should be reason for Democratic officials to leave X–and they don’t really have to leave either. They could just post first on other sites, and wait a few hours to post on X. Ideally, they would leave entirely, but even a time delay would drive reporters and pundits off of X, since they wouldn’t be able to get ‘scoops’ on X for several hours.

But if the antisemitism isn’t a good enough reason to leave, this episode tells us that Elon Musk’s X is heavily biased, including Grok. The antisemitism is so obvious, as was the ‘white genocide’ autoresponse from a month ago, that it’s easy to observe. But more subtle biases (e.g., downweighting Democratic officials’ posts) would be much harder to detect. And if Musk is willing to go “MechaHitler” (that’s actually a phrase Grok used), we should assume he is putting his thumb on the algorithmic scale.

Time to stop playing a rigged game, especially when it’s so odious.