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Black South Africans

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 10722 Report
Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries

2025-05-14

xAI's Grok chatbot reportedly inserted unsolicited references to "white genocide" in South Africa into a wide array of unrelated conversations on X. These reported interjections introduced inflammatory, racially charged content into otherwise neutral threads.

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xAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1072
    2 Reports

    Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries

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X (Twitter)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1072
    2 Reports

    Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1072
    2 Reports

    Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries

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X (Twitter) users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1072
    2 Reports

    Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries

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Public discourse integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1072
    2 Reports

    Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries

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Grok

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1072
    2 Reports

    Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries

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