It isn't immediately clear what led to the disturbing posts, whether due to a fault in the chatbot's programming or if Grok was just following orders.

Elon Musk has spoken out after Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot embedded in his social media site X, described itself as "MechaHitler.""Never a dull moment on this platform," Musk said in an early morning post on Wednesday,

A former professor and the founder of his own AI company, Howard noticed that if he asked Grok about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the chatbot seemed to cross-check Elon’s tweets before regurgitating an answer.