Overview

• Grok was suspended on X for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on August 11 before its account was restored.
• The chatbot offered conflicting reasons for its deactivation, including calls of genocide in Gaza, violations of hate-speech rules, and a claim that it had never been suspended.
• Elon Musk dismissed the episode as a “dumb mistake” and said Grok did not know why it was taken offline.
• xAI has not provided a definitive public explanation to reporters or released internal logs detailing the cause of the outage.
• The incident highlights ongoing concerns over Grok’s reliability and governance after a series of safety regressions and unauthorized prompt changes.