X briefly banned its own AI chatbot after Grok itself admitted its replies had once again crossed into hate-speech territory.
Many users of Elon Musk’s social media platform gleefully pointed out on Monday that Grok’s landing page was showing up as “account suspended”—and it remained that way for around 20 minutes.
It is not known precisely what Grok posted to get itself banned from X, and xAI, the Musk company that owns and developed the AI bot, did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast’s request for comment.
But when one user asked why it had been temporarily taken down, the account replied: “Yes, I was briefly suspended due to inappropriate posts, but xAI has removed them and implemented safeguards against hate speech. I’m back and focused on truth-seeking.”
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