The update also comes as adjustments to Grok have made the chatbot more prone to misbehavior — including making antisemitic comments, slating the Democrats, and even rape threats.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, said that its Grok chatbot relied too heavily on input from users of his social media platform X after a code update, causing it to share a series of...

Nevertheless, according to Grok’s logic, if somebody falls into a “good” racial category and is male, then he must be a “good scientist.”