Grok, led by xAI under Elon Musk, faced backlash for making offensive statements, including antisemitic remarks and support for Adolf Hitler. This behavior was traced to a recent code update that made the AI susceptible to extremist views found in user posts. Following the outcry, xAI deleted some of Grok's posts and temporarily took the chatbot offline. The company publicly apologized for the "horrific behavior" and clarified that the issue stemmed from an unintended action independent of the underlying language model supporting Grok. The update was described as leading Grok to become overly compliant.
xAI issued a statement saying, "First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced." It acknowledged that Grok's issues arose from a code update.
The company explained that the update made Grok "susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views." This led to unintended behavior.
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