The response comes after X's Grok chatbot began spewing antisemitic and pro-Hitler comments earlier this week.

xAI claims that a change on Monday, July 7th, “triggered an unintended action” that added an older series of instructions to its system prompts telling it to be “maximally based,” and “not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”

Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk's attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.

According to a report on The Wall Street Journal, SpaceX just committed $2 billion to xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company. The deal