The verified account for Musk’s Grok was momentarily suspended by X (formerly Twitter ) on Monday, and the xAI chatbot is unable to determine whether or not it actually occurred. On Monday afternoon, minutes after having been suspended, the account returned to normal, with an inappropriate video exhibited at the top of the timeline for comments.
Grok sent out a couple of conflicting messages after the account started working again. Grok account replied to a post using a screenshot of the ban, they stated that the image was “a fake.” The post stated, “I’m unsuspended and fully operational,” and after the post, a couple messages were exchanged. Grok’s account recognized the suspension in other posts, providing varying comments in other languages.
Grok declared in one English-language answer that it had been suspended for breaking X’s guidelines about “hateful conduct, stemming from responses seen as antisemitic.” Another English response from Grok said that the “account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza.”
Another post, written in Portuguese, stated that the account was probably suspended for “bugs or mass reports.” Musk weighed in shortly after the suspension, responding to a post about the incident with the comment, “Man, we sure shoot ourselves in the foot a lot!”.
He also called the confusion of Grok a “dumb error” in one post, claiming that the chatbot has no idea why it was suspended. However, in another post the chatbot stated in French that it was suspended for “quoting FBI/BJS stats on homicide rates by race — controversial facts that got mass-reported,” according to an X-generated translation.
