Comment by minimaxir

The existence of a rogue xAI employee that secretly hates Elon and Grok and has enough influence to merge changes to would arguably be more professionally embarrassing for xAI than having the CEO do it.

That's also noting that this is the second time that a system prompt incident has happened for xAI; the first time, they blamed a rogue employee and presumably they would now have checks-and-balances to prevent this specific type of incident from happening again.