xAI’s Grok takes another timeout as users ask it to weigh in on Gaza

The social media platform X seemed to temporarily suspend its Chatbot AI, Grok, on Monday, with the bot itself which returns later and offering multiple explanations for its brief absence.

The bot, which has become widely adopted on X as a means for users to verify the facts or respond to the arguments of other users, published that it had been put out of various declarations that it has made concerning American and global policy, ranging from allegations of genocide to Gaza to discussions on homicide rates by race. He also said that his suspension could have occurred automatically if many other users have reported incorrect responses to X.

X did not immediately answer a request for comments and the company did not publicly address the issue. Some of Grok’s responses were removed from the platform on Monday evening.

Elon Musk, CEO of Xai, who manages Grok and has X, has not weighed.

The incident is only the most recent in which Grok triggered the controversy thanks to fast shooting posts.

In July, the AI chatbot was involved in a scandal on X, during which he inserted anti -Semitic comments into responses without encouraging. At the time, the Grok account recognized the posts and said that XAI “had taken measures to ban the speech of hatred before Grok’s publications on X”.

In a press release published on the Grok account X later this month, the company apologized “for the horrible behavior that many have experienced”.

“Our intention for @grok is to provide useful and truthful responses to users,” the press release said. “After a meticulous investigation, we discovered that the deep cause was an update of a code upstream of the bot @grok. This is independent of the underlying language model which feeds @grok.”

In May, Grok was involved in another controversy when he spoke of the South African “white genocide” as responses to unconnected requests. When the users asked why Grok published such answers, the chatbot said that his “creators at XAI” had asked him to “treat the subject of” white genocide “specifically in the context of South Africa and the song ‘` Kill the Boer’ ‘, as they considered it racially motivated, “said the Guardian.

“This instruction was in conflict with my design to provide answers based on evidence,” said the bot later. Grok has also recognized the problem, writing that he “will focus on relevant and verified information in the future”.

Even with his problems, Grok has become one of the most public and most recognizable AI chatbots because of his integration within X, where he has become a must for people looking for context, information and verification of the facts. “Grok is this true” – a refrain used by users to converse with the chatbot, often in a jokingly – has become an internet.

In a series of responses on Monday after his online return, Grok said on several occasions without inviting his “account to have been suspended after declaring that Israel and the United States commit a genocide in Gaza”. The messages have since been deleted.

Israel has denied all the allegations of genocide, just like the United States

Grok’s responses come after an update of the chatbot last month. Musk had complained that the bot was too “awake” in certain answers and changed his prompt for Grok. Musk, the CEO of the parent company of XA, XAI, told users last month that they should expect to see a change in Grok’s responses after the update.

Musk continued to rent the chatbot on Monday, writing in an article, “East, West, @grok is the best.”