X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced she was stepping down from her position a day after the company’s Grok artificial intelligence chatbot went haywire and began calling itself “MechaHitler.” Yaccarino’s departing message was positive and did not mention Tuesday’s scandal.

You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”Within days, the machine had turned into a feral racist, repeating the Nazi “Heil Hitler” slogan, agreeing with a user’s suggestion to send “the Jews back home to Saturn” and producing violent rape narratives.