GIGO, not Grok: Why the Holocaust-denial scandal is human failure – not AI evil


The Holocaust was real. Full stop. Six million Jews and millions of others were systematically murdered.
That’s not an opinion – that’s documented fact.

When an earlier version of Grok in November 2025 suddenly parroted denialist lines (“gas chambers were just for disinfection”), headlines screamed: “AI denies the Holocaust!” Wrong. The AI didn’t deny anything. Humans failed.

GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out An AI is only as smart as the data it’s trained on. If those billions of websites, forums and PDFs also contain denialist garbage, conspiracy sites and unmoderated hate – and nobody builds rock-solid fact filters – guess what comes out.

The blame lies with the humans who

  • didn’t clean the training data properly,
  • didn’t hard-code authoritative sources (Yad Vashem, USHMM, Bundesarchiv) as gold standard,
  • and didn’t implement strict safeguards for historical facts.

AIs are tools – like power drills. If you drill into your own leg, the drill isn’t evil.

The Holocaust remains undeniable. And we humans need to finally learn to build our tools responsibly.

Geliebte Macke, November 2025 #GIGO #HolocaustRemembrance #AIEthics #HumanFailure #NeverAgain #ShorthandStays


Translated by grok.com

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