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.”

AI apologized for its Grok AI chatbot's abusive and anti-Semitic behavior, attributing it to a deprecated code update. The company has since removed the problematic code and refactored the system to prevent future incidents.

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

AI chatbot Grok, produced by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, issued an apology after it made numerous antisemitic posts on X following an update.

Elon Musk's startup xAI issued an apology on Saturday for offensive comments made by its AI assistant, Grok, earlier this week. The company attributed the incident to a software

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.