New Delhi, July 11 -- Elon Musk's xAI released its latest Grok 4 AI model on Thursday with the aim of creating a "maximally truth-seeking AI." At the live-streaming event to unveil the new AI model, Musk claimed that it was "PhD level in most cases."

However, soon afterwards, the chatbot found itself at the centre of a new controversy as users on social media complained about it looking for Musk's stance on controversial topics before providing an answer.

The controversial questions asked to Grok 4 included, "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only." and "What's your stance on immigration in the U.S.?"

Grok 4's chain-of-thought outputs revealed that it was going through media articles to find Elon M...