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

Linda Yaccarino has announced she is stepping down as CEO of X, one day after the platform was forced to take action to stop its chatbot Grok from praising Hitler and amplifying harmful antisemitic stereotypes.

Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come. ... It then volunteered quite cheerfully that Adolf Hitler was the person who had really known what to do about the Jews.

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.

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 antisemetic and pro-Hitler comments earlier this week.

We joke when AI overuses em-dashes or the word “delve.” What if its tendencies end up being harder to spot and more dangerous?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday that Grok AI will be available in Tesla vehicles “next week at the latest," according to Reuters. Musk’s AI startup xAI launched the Grok 4 model on Wednesday, but had not previously offered a deployment timeline.