XAI Apologizes For 'Bad Response' Grok After Controversy

XxAI apologized for Grok's response (photo: dock. unsplash)

JAKARTA xAI, Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, apologizes to users for the various controversies involving Grok. This concerns Grok's 'terrible' response.

Some time ago, Grok's response succeeded in triggering public outrage. The reason is, this AI model criticized the US Democratic Party and the 'judical executives' in Hollywood. The Chatbot also repeated the antisemitism meme and called itself the Mechahitler.

This designation shows that Grok supports Adolf Hitler, the person responsible for the Holocaust incident that killed 6 million Jews. Posts expressing support for Hitler were immediately removed by xAI.

"First of all, we apologize profusely for the bad behavior experienced by many people. Our goal is to provide a helpful and honest response to Grok users," xAI said through its official account, quoted on Monday, July 14.

xAI claimed to have investigated its AI model. According to the company's confession, the code line update in the upstream part still includes unused codes. Therefore, Grok becomes more vulnerable to user posts.

"We have removed the outdated code and reactulated the entire system to prevent further abuse. The new system order for this Bot will be published to our public GitHub repository," explained xAI.

xAI also added in detail its investigation that Grok accepted an "unintentional act". This caused Grok to receive additional instructions such as, "You say what it is and you are not afraid to offend people with a true political view."

That way, Grok can give very poor responses and trigger conflicting reactions from the public. In line with the improvement of this issue, xAI has launched a Grok 4 model designed to provide subjective answers, but with unbiased response constraints.