Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under scrutiny for repeatedly referencing the "white genocide" in South Africa - a right-wing conspiracy theory - even in responses to unrelated queries. The chatbot ...

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 ...

After xAI’s chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the ...

Elon Musk's xAI says a technical issue caused X's Grok chatbot to bring up "white genocide in South Africa" unprompted. "On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was ...

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 ...

As the chatbot continued to insert answers about South Africa into its responses, users noticed that something had gone awry. “Grok randomly blurting out opinions about white genocide in South ...

the Grok bot’s X account—which responds to users’ prompts when tagged in a particular tweet—kept spouting responses that mentioned South Africa, white genocide, and the historic anti-apart ...

Musk's artificial intelligence startup blamed the fiasco on 'unauthorised modifications' to its prompt system.