X users were getting responses from Grok about "white genocide" under unrelated posts on Wednesday. We asked Grok to explain why it was doing that. Grok first said its creators told it to do so ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said an “unauthorized modification” to its chatbot Grok was the reason why it kept talking about South African racial politics and the subject of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

May 16 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk‘s company xAI has now addressed recent strange behavior from its Grok chatbot, claiming that an “unauthorized modification” caused it to bring up the myth of “white genocide ...

Sam Altman asked Grok if he or Elon Musk should advance AI if the fate of humanity was at stake. We asked the same question to ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot, Gemini, Meta AI, and Perplexity.

Grok largely debunked the claim of “white genocide,” citing statistics that show a major decline in attacks on farmers and connecting the funeral procession to a general crime wave ...

Grok's odd, unrelated replies are a reminder that AI chatbots are still a nascent technology, and may not always be a reliable source for information. In recent months, AI model providers have ...