An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first.

This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

One of the new AI ‘companions’ launched by Elon Musk’s xAI, the company that owns the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), is being reportedly tweaked.

Elon Musk is adjusting Grok’s foul-mouthed AI panda after user roasts sparked debate over its harsh replies on X.

Usually, when you try to mess with an AI chatbot, you have to be pretty clever to get past its guardrails. But Bad Rudy basically has no guardrails, which is its whole point. Getting Bad Rudy to suggest that you burn a school is as easy as getting Ani to fall in love with you.

The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI development.