The gist is down the page. I believe the assertion is sound and is worthy of consideration.

    Here’s the thing: Grok didn’t say anything. Grok didn’t
    blame anyone. Grok didn’t apologize. Grok can’t do any
    of these things, because Grok is not a sentient entity
    capable of speech acts, blame assignment, or remorse.

    What actually happened is that a user prompted Grok to generate
    text about the incident. The chatbot then produced a word sequence
    that pattern-matched to what an apology might sound like, because
    that’s what large language models do. They predict statistically
    likely next tokens based on their training data. 

    When you ask an LLM to write an apology, it writes something that
    looks like an apology. That’s not the same as actually apologizing.