If you have a question for Grok today, there's a chance X's AI chatbot replied by talking about "white genocide" in South Africa, a controversial talking point in far-right circles.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok experienced a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to posts on X with info about South ...

The chatbot offered off-topic responses about race relations in South Africa, even when users asked unrelated questions.

The AI chatbot Grok has predicted the outcome of the World Test Championship final between Australia and South Africa.

And for the most part, Grok has performed reasonably well at providing responses. But not yesterday. Chalamet was sitting ...

Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to unrelated questions. By Kate Conger Reporting from San Francisco Elon ...

Grok seems to have been programmed to defend claims of white genocide in South Africa. Now it’s all it can talk about.

Musk, who was born in South Africa, frequently opines on ... were “hard-coded” because, while chatbot outputs are typically very random, Grok’s responses consistently brought up nearly ...

“Grok randomly blurting out opinions about white genocide in South Africa smells to me like the sort of buggy ... Golbeck said it was clear the answers were “hard-coded” because, while chatbot outputs ...

The issue appeared to be fixed within hours. Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under scrutiny for repeatedly referencing the "white genocide" in South Africa - a right-wing conspiracy theory - even ...

“Grok randomly blurting out opinions about white genocide in South Africa smells to me like the ... answers were “hard-coded” because, while chatbot outputs are typically random, Grok's ...

X’s Grok has been responding to unrelated prompts with discussions of “white genocide” in South Africa, one of Musk’s hobbyhorses.