Source: Engadget
“The team behind Grok has issued a rare apology and explanation of what went wrong after X’s chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Nazi rhetoric earlier this week, at one point even calling itself ‘MechaHitler.’ In a statement posted on Grok’s X account late Friday night, the xAI team said ‘we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced’ and attributed the chatbot’s vile responses to a recent update that introduced ‘deprecated code.’ This code, according to the statement, made Grok ‘susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views.'” (07/12/25)