Last April, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, teased a mysterious Unhinged Mode for Xs AI-powered chatbot, Grok. Nearly a year later, xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has updated an FAQ page on its website that sheds light on the new mode.Grok in Unhinged Mode will provide responses intended to be objectionable, inappropriate, and offensive, according to the FAQ page much like an amateur stand-up comic who is still learning the craft.The mode doesnt appear to be live yet. TechCrunch tried in vain to find it in the Grok web interface on X.Unhinged Mode may be Musks attempt to deliver on Groks original vision.When Musk announced Grok roughly two years ago, he pitched the chatbot as edgy, unfiltered, and anti-woke in general, willing to answer controversial questions other AI systems wont. He delivered on some of that promise. Told to be vulgar, for example, Grok will happily oblige, spewing profanities and colorful language you wouldnt hear fromChatGPT.But Grok as it exists todayhedgeson political subjects and wont cross certain boundaries. In fact, one study found that Grok leans to the political left on topics like transgender rights, diversity programs, and inequality.Musk has blamed the behavior on Groks training data public webpages and pledged to shift Grok closer to politically neutral.Unfortunately, the Internet (on which it is trained), is overrun with woke nonsense, he said in a post in December 2023. Grok will get better. This is just the beta.Musk and many of his allies, including President-elect Donald Trumps crypto and AI czar, David Sacks, have accused AI chatbots of censoring conservative viewpoints. Sacks has singled out OpenAIs ChatGPT in particular as programmed to be woke and untruthful about politically sensitive subjects.