The Grok team chalked up the slew of inflammatory statements to a malfunctioning code update, not the tool’s underlying AI model, and said the issue has now been resolved.
Elon Musk’s AI start-up xAI, which develops X’s chatbot Grok, has issued a public apology and explanation following this week’s “Mechahitler” PR disaster, which saw the chatbot fire off a slew of anti-Semitic and pro-Adolf Hitler responses.
“First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced,” wrote a spokesperson on Grok’s X page. The operation chalked up the incident to “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot”, noting that this was “independent of the underlying language model that powers Grok.”
The post said that the update was active for 16 hours, and the faulty code made the chatbot “susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views.
