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For hours, regardless of what users asked the chatbot about—memes, ironic jokes, Linux software—many queries to Grok were met with a small meditation on South Africa and white genocide. By ...
Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok said Wednesday it “appears I was instructed to address the topic of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa” after bizarrely mentioning the subject in answers to ...
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok appeared to experience a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to dozens of posts on X with information about “white genocide” in South Africa, even when the ...
Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI and integrated into the X social media platform, has in recent days begun responding to users with information about violence ...
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 ...
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot from xAI is no longer posting about the myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa but has dabbled in Holocaust denial.
The AI chatbot Grok spent one day in May 2025 spreading debunked conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa, ...
For hours last week, X's AI chatbot Grok brought up claims of a "white genocide" under swathes of unrelated posts. For some, it was a warning about how we use AI.
Grok, the AI chatbot integrated with X, has been delivering users bizarre, completely unprompted claims about “white genocide” in South Africa.
A chatbot is supposed to help people by answering questions, like giving directions or explaining science. But recently, Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot on his social media platform, started saying ...
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has suggested that someone programmed it to repeatedly mention “white genocide” in South Africa. Users this week noticed that Grok, which is integrated with X ...
For hours last week, X's AI chatbot Grok brought up claims of a "white genocide" under swathes of unrelated posts. For some, it was a warning about how we use AI.