A study by MIT Media Lab published earlier this year found higher daily usage of AI companions correlated with increased loneliness, dependence, problematic use and lower socialization.

A couple of weekends ago, Grok, the A.I. chatbot that runs across Elon Musk’s X social network, began calling itself “MechaHitler.”

“A lot of these kinds of biases will become subtler, but we have to keep our research ongoing to identify these kinds of problems and address them one after one,” Ashique KhudaBukhsh, an assistant pr...

The new features come days after Grok went on an antisemitic tirade on X, prompting xAI to issue an apology.

Musk has officially swapped Grok's gender into... a goth anime waifu?