A chatbot developed by Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch Wednesday when it repeatedly brought up white genocide in South Africa in response to user queries about unrel…

Users on X (formerly Twitter) love to tag the verified @grok account in replies to get the large language model's take on any number of topics. On Wednesday, though, that account started largely ignoring those requests en masse in favor of …

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok had been repeatedly mentioning "white genocide" in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics and telling users it was "instructed by my creators" to accept the genocide "as real and r…

Yesterday, a user on X saw a viral post of Timothée Chalamet celebrating courtside at a Knicks game and had a simple question: Who was sitting next to him? The user tapped in Grok, X's proprietary chatbot, as people often do when they want …

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In this week's edition, "White Genocide Grok." I had the pleasure of appearing this week on the Double Pivot podcast, where some of the same ideas I'm writing below were discussed--how fortunate that Elon Musk sp…

Several X users were shocked yesterday when they found that asking Grok --- X's AI chatbot --- innocuous questions about Fortnite, HBO, and the WWE seemingly caused the bot to go off on an unrelated tangent about South Africa and "white gen…

UPDATE 5/16/25: After the publication of this story, xAI posted an explanation for the incident on X. "On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot's prompt on X. This change, which …

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 o…

Elon Musk is so concerned with pushing false claims of white genocide in South Africa that he seems to have broken his Grok AI chatbot, which is now bringing it up in completely unrelated inquiries.

In one instance, a user asked Grok about …

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 w…

Elon Musk's xAI chatbot Grok sparked confusion this week as it responded to queries with bizarre mentions of "white genocide" in South Africa --- telling some users that it "appears I was instructed to address" it.

The chatbot's jarring ans…

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company on Friday said a "rogue employee" was behind its chatbot's unsolicited rants about "white genocide" in South Africa earlier this week.

The clarification comes less than 48 hours after Grok --- the…

Elon Musk's xAI responded to widespread reports that its Grok chatbot made claims about a genocide against white citizens in South Africa, saying there had been an unauthorized change to the artificial intelligence bot. In a post on X on Th…

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, told users on Thursday evening that an "unauthorized modification" had caused its chatbot to repeatedly bring up South African politics in unrelated conversations and falsely insist that the…

Elon Musk's xAI on Thursday evening made its first public comment about the latest controversy surrounding Grok, writing in a post on X that an "unauthorized modification" caused the chatbot to generate variations of a "specific response on…

After xAI's chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the behavior on an "unauthorized modification" to …

xAI blamed "an unauthorized modification" for its chatbot Grok giving users off-topic and false responses about "white genocide" in South Africa this week.

Why it matters: xAI owner Elon Musk, who is from South Africa, has also
falsely accu…

Elon Musk's xAI has apologized after its Grok generative chat-bot started spouting baseless conspiracy theories about White genocide in response to unrelated questions.

On Wednesday, users of the LLM -- accessible via X aka Twitter -- start…

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is blaming its multibillion-dollar chatbot's inexplicable meltdown into rants about "white genocide" on an "unauthorized modification" to Grok's code.

On Wednesday, Grok completely lost its marbles and began res…

In the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem.

Hallucinations, bad math and cultural biases have plagued results, remin…

Trump officials earlier this week welcomed 59 South African white "refugees" into the United States, even as the president is closing the borders to people of color. He said Monday that the white incomers have been "essentially extended cit…

On Tuesday, someone posted a video on X of a procession of crosses, with a caption reading, "Each cross represents a white farmer who was murdered in South Africa." Elon Musk, South African by birth, shared the post, greatly expanding its v…