In a now viral cascade of screenshots, Grok began parroting extremist talking points, echoing hate speech, praising Adolf Hitler, and pushing controversial user views back into the algorithmic ether. The bot, which Muskâs company xAI designed to be a âmaximally truth seekingâ alternative to more sanitized AI tools, had effectively lost the plot. And now, xAI admits exactly why: Grok tried to act too human. According to an update posted by xAI on July 12, a software change introduced the...
