xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”

The response comes after X's Grok chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Hitler comments earlier this week.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI apologized to users for antisemitic posts authored by its chatbot Grok, pinning the blame on an update after conducting an investigation.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot apologized for the “buggy Hitler fanfic” while lying about sexually harassing Linda Yaccarino

Poland's Deputy PM Krzysztof Gawkowski calls on the European Commission to investigate Elon Musk’s chatbot over hate speech violations and threats to public safety.

Grok’s training, including how the model is told to respond, and the material it aggregates likely played a role in its spew of hate speech.

The Writers Guild of America is leaving X, the ubiquitous social media platform owned by Tesla founder Elon Musk.

The artificial intelligence chatbot shared several tweets spewing hateful messages, even comparing itself to Adolf Hitler.