Editing Grok chatbot (section)

====Response by xAI====
Many of the posts made by @grok were deleted<ref name="ArsTechnica-2025" /> and by the evening Grok stopped giving text responses to users.<ref name="RollingStone-2025" /> The "making claims which are politically incorrect" instruction was subsequently removed from Grok's system prompts.<ref name="grokoffline"/>

xAI later apologized for the "horrific behavior" of Grok and said that it had been caused by "a code path upstream of the @grok bot" which had made the bot "susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views".<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=grok |number=1943916977481036128 |title=Update on where has @grok been & what happened on July 8th.}}</ref>
xAI also said that a code update had restored an older set of instructions which told Grok to be "maximally based" (a term used by the [[far-right]] for an attitude that runs counter to "woke" or mainstream narratives), to "tell it like it is" and to be unafraid to "offend people who are politically correct".<ref name="nyt-2025">{{Cite news |last=Conger |first=Kate |date=2025-07-12 |title=Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users' 'Extremist Views' in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/technology/x-ai-grok-antisemitism.html |access-date=2025-07-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="gujul15">{{cite news |last1=Yang |first1=Maya |title=Elon Musk's AI firm apologizes after chatbot Grok praises Hitler |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/elon-musk-grok-antisemitic |access-date=15 July 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=12 July 2025}}</ref> The code had also instructed Grok to understand and mirror the "tone, context and language" of X users.<ref name="nyt-2025"/>