Elon Musk's xAI startup has blamed an "unauthorized modification" for causing its chatbot Grok to generate posts referencing "white genocide" in South Africa.

AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to "white genocide in South Africa" when invoked in certain contexts on X.

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