Elon Musk’s AI company says an “unauthorized modification” led Grok to post unsolicited claims on social media.

You’ll notice that xAI, which is owned by Elon Musk, strongly suggests there was an internal actor who made this “unauthorized modification” but doesn’t use the language you’d expect if it was an employee at the company. And we’re guessing that might have something to do with the fact that it wasn’t an employee necessarily, but the owner.

People are debating whether Elon Musk programmed his chatbot to spread propaganda about South Africa. But it doesn’t matter: Grok is Musk’s mouthpiece anyway.