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

In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

White genocide is the myth perpetrated by neo-Nazis and white supremacists that white people are being exterminated by ...

AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to ...

“The claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious and lacks credible evidence,” the Grok-powered X account ...

Update 4/16/2025: Last night, xAI, the makers of Grok, issued a statement about the artificial intelligence's temporary focus on "white genocide" in answers to unrelated questions. According to ...

Some X users on Wednesday asked Grok – the AI chatbot available through Elon Musk’s social media platform – questions about simple topics like baseball players or videos of fish being flushed down ...

Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a ...

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

In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been "instructed to accept white genocide as real and 'Kill the Boer' as racially motivated." In other replies, it merely allows that the topics are ...

It was not immediately clear why the AI bot had suddenly ... Musk’s claims on the topic, Grok wrote “No trustworthy sources back Elon Musk’s 'white genocide' claim in South Africa; courts ...

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