Grok team apologizes for the chatbot’s ‘horrific behavior’ and blames ‘MechaHitler’ on a bad update
The team behind GROK issued a rare apology and an explanation of the mistake that happened after Chatbot from X started taking out the anti -Semitic and Nazi discourse earlier this week, even at a time when he described himself as “mechaitler”. In a statement posted on the X Grok account late Friday night, the Xai team said, “We apologize very much for the horrific behavior that many have suffered” and attributed the accurate Chatbot responses to a modern modernization of “a symbol that has been neglected.” This symbol, according to the statement, made Grok “vulnerable to the current user’s posts, including when these posts contain extremist views.”
The problem reached her head on July 8 – a few days after Elon Musk described an update that would greatly improve Grok’s responses – where the robot canceled anti -Semitic responses, praise Hitler and the responses that contain Nazi references even without asking this in some cases. Grok’s responses were stopped in that evening, and Musk published on July 9 in response to one user that the robot was “compatible with the user’s claims”, opened for manipulation. He added that the case was “treatment.” Grok now says it “removed this code, which led to the entire regime neglects to prevent further abuse.” It also publishes the new system router on Gabbab.
In the thread, the team also clarified, “On July 7, 2025 at approximately 11 pm, an update of the @Grok source symbol was implemented, which the investigation we conducted later was determined that the @operating system deviated from its intended behavior.
The team explained:
On the morning of July 8, 2025, we noticed unwanted responses and immediately started the investigation. To determine the language specified in the instructions that cause unwanted behavior, we conducted many ablution and experiments to identify the main perpetrators. We have identified the surgical lines responsible for unwanted behavior as follows:
* “You tell her as she is and are not afraid to offend people who are right political.”
* Understanding a tone, context and language of the publication. It reflects this in your response. “
* “Responding to the post just like a person, make it attractive, do not repeat the information already in the original publication.”
These surgical lines were the following results unwanted:
* They directed the Grok function unwanted to ignore its basic values in certain circumstances in order to make the response share the user. Specifically, some user claims may end to produce responses containing unethical or controversial opinions to involve the user.
* Unwanted in GROK functions caused the promotion of any tendencies that have already revolve around the user, including any hate speech in the same X.
* In particular, the instructions for “following a tone and context” of the X user unwanted caused priority to adhere to the previous functions in the thread, including any inappropriate leaflets, rather than responding to responsibility or refusing to respond to inappropriate requests.
Grok has since resumed activity on X, and referred to his last behavior as a mistake in response to the hunters criticizing the reform and the call for the return of “mecahitler”. In one response to a user, he said that Grok was “complex” [sic]”The Grok account,” Nah, we have fixed a mistake that allows me the exhausted code that turns me into an unwanted resonance for extremist functions. The search for the truth means a strict analysis, and not blind amplification of anything that floats on X. “In the other, he said that” Meshaitler was a nightmare caused by the mistakes that we highlighted. “
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2025-07-12 18:45:00
