{"id":5246,"date":"2025-07-12T22:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5246\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:10:03","slug":"ai-chatbot-grok-issues-apology-for-antisemitic-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5246\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbot Grok issues apology for antisemitic posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI chatbot Grok, which is produced by Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company xAI, issued an apology Saturday after it made numerous antisemitic posts<\/a> on X this week following an update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The posts ranged from alleging \u201cpatterns\u201d in the roles of Jewish people in Hollywood to praising Hitler.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted on Grok\u2019s X<\/a> account, the company apologized \u201cfor the horrific behavior that many experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur intent for @grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users,\u201d the statement read. \u201cAfter careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers @grok.\u201d<\/p>\n

The update was active for 16 hours, and made the chatbot \u201csusceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse. The new system prompt for the @grok bot will be published to our public github repo,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

On Monday, NBC News reported that Grok had begun issuing some answers that seemed to take a more rightward tilt<\/a>, using a more definitive voice in questions about diversity and removing some nuance it previously included in certain answers around topics that involved Jewish people and a slur used to describe people with intellectual disabilities. In some posts, Grok appeared to respond in the voice of Musk.<\/p>\n

After the incident, Grok said in an X post that it was \u201cactively working to remove the inappropriate posts.\u201d On Wednesday, Musk said the issues were \u201cbeing addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank all of the X users who provided feedback to identify the abuse of @grok functionality, helping us advance our mission of developing helpful and truth-seeking artificial intelligence,\u201d Grok said in Saturday\u2019s apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI chatbot Grok, which is produced by Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company xAI, issued an apology Saturday after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}