Elon Musk is trying to blame Grok's Nazi rants on rogue X users

One day after Grok posted a series of antisemitic and pro-Nazi rants on X, Elon Musk is seemingly trying to blame rogue users for the chatbot's unhinged posts. "Grok was too compliant to user prompts," Musk said in a post. "Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed."

Grok posted a slew of antisemitic and pro-Nazi comments on Tuesday, including a post that said "Heil Hitler." X has since halted Grok's ability to publicly reply to users on the platform. The chatbot stopped posting text replies on Tuesday and for a brief period only responded to users with image posts. The chatbot hasn't publicly responded to any users since Tuesday at 5:43PM PT.

Musk's explanation mirrors a response the web version of Grok provided on Tuesday when asked about the X post in which it had said "Heil Hitler." After ...