By Alexander Saeedy, Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2025
Will Stancil opened his phone on Tuesday and found that Grok, xAI’s chatbot, was providing millions of people on X with advice on how to break into his house and assault him.
The 39-year-old attorney has a sizable following on X, where he regularly posts about urban planning and politics. Stancil, a Democrat who ran for local office in Minnesota, isn’t a stranger to contentious arguments on social media with political opponents.
But on Tuesday, he found that the newest bully online was a robot: @Grok.
