Elon Musk has created a monster. Grok, the AI chatbot he commissioned for his social media platform, X, has been behaving strangely and terribly after its code was updated last week, spewing bigoted talking points when users ask for answers to questions about the world — and even floating Adolf Hitler as a figure worthy of admiration.

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.”

Elon Musk debuted Grok 4, saying it was capable of reasoning at "superhuman" levels and is "better than PhD level at everything."

Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot blamed DOGE for Texas flood deaths and shared an antisemitic trope, days before Grok 4's release.

The xAI founder said the very notion humans actually once managed an economy will seem very quaint in the future, like 'cavemen throwing sticks into a fire'.

Elon Musk says his xAI company’s latest AI model Grok 4 is “better than PhD level in everything.” Describing the latest model as “the smartest AI in the world” at its launch, the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla boss said it had received 100 times more training than the Grok 2 version,