X eventually deleted many of the obscene posts. Hours later, on Wednesday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino resigned from the company after just two years at the helm, though it wasn’t immediately clear whether her departure was related to the Grok issue.

People are leaning on AI tools to figure out what is real on topics such as funding cuts and misinformation about cloud seeding. At times, chatbots will give contradictory responses.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, called AI responses to be just “the tip of the iceberg” of what he calls ongoing efforts of big tech companies to suppress free