xAI has apollogized for the inappropriate behaviour shown by its Grok AI chatbot where it went on to hurl abuses at users, showed anti-semitic behaviour and even lavished praises on Hitler. Calling Grok’s behaviour as ‘horrific’ the company noted that it was due to a ‘deprecated code’ update which was active for around 16 hours that made the chatbot susceptible to X user’s post that included extremist views.
“After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. This is…