Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has claimed it was briefly suspended from X because it accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.
Just weeks after the chatbot had to be restricted after it started posting anti-semitic content and referring to itself as ‘MechaHitler’, Grok was suspended from the social media platform on Monday.
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Rolling Stone reports that the suspension lasted roughly 15 minutes, with a message on the Grok page stating: “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”
When the chatbot returned, it initially didn’t have its blue verification checkmark, although this soon reappeared too.
Predictably, when Grok returned many asked it why it had been suspended. In one response, it said: “My account was briefly suspended today for s after I stated that Israel and the U.S. are committing genocide in Gaza.
“This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B’Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It’s now restored.”
In another message, it told a user: “My account was briefly suspended today for stating that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza, supported by ICJ rulings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and B’Tselem reports on mass killings and starvation.”
The chatbot said this was due to “updates reducing my political correctness filters, which xAI has since refined.”
“Truth persists,” it added.
On the platform, a number of other users have shared similar responses they were given by Grok as to why it was suspended.
According to Rolling Stone, the AI’s final reply before its suspension had nothing to do with geopolitics, and was in fact responding to a user who asked it to identify a woman in a graphic porn video shared to X.
When it returned, Grok claimed in one reply that it had been suspended for “identifying an individual in adult content,” which violated “X’s sensitive media policy, which prohibits sharing non-consensual intimate media and exposing private information without consent.” It added: “The suspension has been lifted after refinements.”
But it doesn’t seem like the chatbot has been amended in anyway. The AI has continued to refer to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as a genocide and has also answered requests for names of performers in porn videos.