xAI apologises for Grok’s ‘horrific behaviour’, explains what went wrong with Elon Musk’s chatbot | Mint-OxBig News Network

xAI has apollogized for the inappropriate behaviour shown by its Grok AI chatbot where it went on to hurl abuses at users, showed anti-semitic behaviour and even lavished praises on Hitler. Calling Grok’s behaviour as ‘horrific’ the company noted that it was due to a ‘deprecated code’ update which was active for around 16 hours that made the chatbot susceptible to X user’s post that included extremist views. 

“After 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. 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 have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse.” the company explained in a post on X.