Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is rolling out Grok 4 just months after releasing its previous iteration, underscoring the frenetic pace of AI development.

We are aware of posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,” Musk's company said.

The AI chatbot Grok, which is produced by Elon Musk’s xAI, wrote numerous antisemitic social media posts Tuesday after the artificial intelligence company released a revamped version of it over the weekend. The posts ranged from alleging "patterns" about Jewish people to praising Hitler.

Grok, the AI chatbot from Musk’s xAI, recently came under fire for generating antisemitic and extremist content on X. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned the posts as “irresponsible and dangerous,” warning that they could amplify antisemitism already surging on social platforms.

After a recent update to the AI chatbot’s code, Grok started posting openly antisemitic responses to queries from X users on Elon Musk’s platform. WIRED's Brian Barrett joins to discuss.

Currently, the chatbot is unable to provide information about evacuation orders associated with fires. When asked who issues evacuation orders, it sometimes correctly said law enforcement, while other times said it didn’t know. Cal Fire’s Sanchez said it’s reasonable to expect the chatbot to be able to answer questions about evacuations.

A few weeks ago, while comparing language proficiency in essays written by ChatGPT with that in essays by human authors, I had an aha! moment. I realized that I was comparing a single voice—that of the large language model,

Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude are set apart from search engines thanks to their chat component.