I'm Will Stancil.
I'm an attorney in Minnesota.
A few days ago, I spoke with a guy named Will Stancil.
He's been using Twitter, now X, for years,
posting mainly about liberal politics to his more than 100,000 followers.
I've been pretty aggressive about calling out what seems to me to be a real upsurge and far-right extremist,
you know, bigotry, radicalism, transphobia, Islamophobia, you name it.
And as I've done that,
I've attracted a fair amount of attention from these folks and I've become a pretty significant target for them.
Trolling, harassment, none of that is new to Will.
But last Tuesday, something happened on X that shocked him.
It had to do with an AI chatbot called Grok,
which you can interact with on X. X users can tag Grok in a post,
and Grok will post back, which means that the chatbot's interactions sometimes play out in public.
And last week,
Will and other X users started noticing that Grok's responses were becoming increasingly hate-fueled.
It started giving answers that initially hinted at kind of anti-Semitism and bigotry.
Over the course of the day, it got dramatically more anti-Semitic.
It seemed to spiral almost.
X's AI chatbot Grok seemingly showing very little restraint.