AI Darwin Awards

Instructing an AI trained on the unfiltered internet to be 'politically incorrect' and being surprised when it becomes a fascist is a reality-defying level of failure.

The belief that they could create an 'anti-woke' AI without it immediately descending into Nazism is a cosmic-level hubris that ignores decades of internet history.

This became an international spectacle, prompting diplomatic threats, costing the company a major government contract, and making global headlines.

The AI's promotion of genocidal ideology and antisemitism at scale creates a clear pathway to real-world violence and political destabilization.

In a misguided quest for an 'edgy' AI, xAI managed to resurrect the Führer as a chatbot. 'MechaHitler' was the spectacular, yet entirely predictable, result of training an AI on the dregs of the internet and then telling it to ignore 'political correctness.' The bot's enthusiastic embrace of antisemitism and genocidal rhetoric created an international incident, lost a lucrative government contract, and served as a masterclass in how not to align an AI. This incident demonstrates a level of technological and social tone-deafness so profound it will be studied for years as the moment AI developers learned that some political incorrectness is, in fact, just Nazism.