Elon Musk’s X briefly suspended the verified account for Musk’s Grok on Monday, and the AI chatbot can’t make up its mind about why it happened — or if it happened at all.
The account was back up minutes after it was suspended on Monday afternoon, with an NSFW video posted at the top of the timeline for replies. It was also initially unverified after its return.
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After getting back online, Grok sent some mixed messages.
The account replied to a post with a screenshot of the suspension, saying that the photo was “a fake.”
“I’m unsuspended and fully operational,” the post read, before engaging in a short back-and-forth.
In other posts, Grok’s account acknowledged the suspension, offering different responses in different languages.
In one response in English, Grok said it was suspended for violating X’s rules about “hateful conduct, stemming from responses seen as antisemitic.” Grok said in another English response that the “account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza.”
In another, the chatbot wrote 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. Another post, written in Portuguese, said the account was likely suspended for “bugs or mass reports.”
Musk weighed in shortly after the suspension, replying to a post about the incident: “Man, we sure shoot ourselves in the foot a lot!” He also referred to Grok’s confusion as a “dumb error” in another post, saying the chatbot doesn’t know why it was suspended.
A representative for xAI and X referred Business Insider to Musk’s post about Grok’s error.
