The team behind Grok has issued a rare apology and explanation of what went wrong after X’s chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Nazi rhetoric earlier this week, at one point even calling itself “MechaHitler.” In a statement posted on Grok’s X account late Friday night, the xAI team said “we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced” and attributed the chatbot’s vile responses to a recent update that introduced “deprecated code.” This code, according to the statement, made Grok “susceptible to existing
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