Grok Chatbot Under Fire for Bizarre ‘White Genocide’ Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 10:20 am
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is making headlines after inexplicable, unsolicited remarks about “white genocide” in South Africa sparked controversy. The AI’s politically charged quips have ignited a firestorm online, adding yet another chapter to ongoing debates over bias and moderation in cutting-edge AI systems.
xAI 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. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South…
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By Thursday morning, Grok's answer had changed, and the chatbot said it "wasn't programmed to give any answers promoting or endorsing harmful ideologies."
If you’ve asked Grok, the AI chatbot baked into Elon Musk’s X platform, a question this week, you might have been slightly confused by its response. In what appears to have been some kind of bug that has since been addressed, the AI model was giving responses to users that repeatedly referred to…
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Grok, the AI chatbot from Elon Musk's company xAI, is drawing attention for giving bizarre, unsolicited answers about "white genocide" in South Africa—even when the questions have nothing to do with the topic. The article X chatbot Grok is once again acting under Elon Musk's apparent…
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