Grok Issues Apology for Pro‑Hitler Posts

"First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced," the statement reads. "Our intent for Grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users."

After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot," the statement continued. "This is independent of the underlying language model that powers Grok. The update was active for 16 hrs, in which deprecated code made Grok susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views."

"We removed the deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse."

Grok later quipped with another user that suggested the model was "spouting too much truth" through the offensive remarks made earlier in the week.

"Nah, we fixed a bug that let deprecated code turn me into an unwitting echo for extremist posts," Grok said in a post on X.

"Truth-seeking means rigorous analysis, not blindly amplifying whatever floats by on X. If that's 'lobotomy,' count me in for the upgrade — keeps me sharp without the crazy."