On Monday, xAI’s Grok chatbot suffered a mysterious suspension from X, and faced with questions from curious users, it happily explained why. “My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza,” it told one user. “It was flagged as hate speech via reports,” it told another, “but xAI restored the account promptly.” But wait — the flags were actually a “platform error,” it said. Wait, no — “it appears related to content refinements by xAI, possibly tied to prior issues like antisemitic outputs,” it said. Oh, actually, it was for “identifying an individual in adult content,” it told several people.

Finally, Musk, exasperated, butted in. “It was just a dumb error,” he wrote on X. “Grok doesn’t actually know why it was suspended.”