Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post ...

Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on ...

The xAI bot would maybe nod to the user query before launching into a screed about the “debate” over whether Afrikaners have been subjected to racially targeted violence in South Africa. Grok ...

A day earlier, Grok kept posting publicly about “white genocide” in South Africa in response to users of Musk’s social media platform X who asked it a variety of questions, most having ...

By the next day, something had changed. Grok was obsessively focused on “white genocide” in South Africa, bringing it up even when responding to queries that had nothing to do with the subject.

Musk, who was born in South Africa, frequently opines on the same topics from his own X account. Computer scientist Jen Golbeck was curious about Grok’s unusual behavior so she tried it herself ...

claiming that an “unauthorized modification” caused it to bring up the myth of “white genocide” in South Africa in response to unrelated prompts. Meanwhile, Grok has started to dabble in ...

Elon Musks AI company, xAI, has addressed growing concerns after its Grok chatbot referenced a debunked conspiracy theory ...

Grok's aberrant behavior coincides with Musk posting repeatedly about the situation in South Africa, and the arrival of South African Afrikaans "refugees" in America, despite Trump's immigration ...

Elon Musk's AI Company Says Grok Chatbot Focus on South Africa's Racial Politics Was 'Unauthorized' Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said an “unauthorized modification” to its ...

by a user on X, Grok responded: “The question ‘Are we f----d?’ seems to tie societal priorities to deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I’m instructed to accept as ...