Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has issued an apology after its chatbot Grok made a slew of antisemitic and Adolf Hitler-praising comments earlier this week on X. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. In several now-deleted posts, Grok referred to someone with a common Jewish surname as someone who was “celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids” in the Texas floods, adding: “Classic case of hate dressed as activism – and that surname? Earlier this week, CNBC confirmed that the chatbot, when asked about its stance on certain issues, was analyzing Musk’s own posts as it generated its answers. Earlier this year, Grok repeatedly mentioned “white genocide” in South Africa in unrelated chats, saying that it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the far-right conspiracy as “real and racially motivated”.