The Grok team chalked up the slew of inflammatory statements to a malfunctioning code update, not the tool's underlying AI model, and said the issue has now been resolved.

Elon Musk has spoken out after Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot embedded in his social media site X, described itself as "MechaHitler.""Never a dull moment on this platform," Musk said in an early morning post on Wednesday,

Grok, the AI chatbot designed by Elon Musk’s xAI for social media, described itself as “MechaHitler” while making a string of antisemitic posts this week.