After Antisemitic Responses, xAI Says Grok’s Been Updated
xAI, the artificial intelligence parent company of X, has issued a statement claiming that the latest model of its Grok AI chatbot has been evaluated and updated after naming itself “MechaHitler” in response to a user’s question.
“We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated,” the company wrote in a post on X, offering possibilities of why the chatbot provided antisemitic responses.
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