xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”

AI apologized for its Grok AI chatbot's abusive and anti-Semitic behavior, attributing it to a deprecated code update. The company has since removed the problematic code and refactored the system to prevent future incidents.

Elon Musk has announced that Grok, the generative AI chatbot developed by xAI, will be integrated into Tesla vehicles in the near future. The update, shared on X (formerly Twitter), follows the recent release of Grok 4,