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 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 early hours of May 14, xAI's chatbot Grok repeatedly gave X users responses that referred to claims about a "white genocide" in South Africa even if their inquiries had nothing to do about ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has blamed an “unauthorized modification” to the Grok chatbot’s response, causing it to generate responses mentioning political and racial ...

On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged "white genocide" in South Africa. xAI now says ...

Elon Musk's xAI said an "unauthorized modification" was made to its Grok response bot. That change "directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic," xAI said. The company's X ...

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 ...

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 ...

Update 4/16/2025: Last night, xAI, the makers of Grok, issued a statement about ... it thinks you expect based on rules applied to the collection of text available to it, 4chan posts included.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has gone absolutely bonkers and is flooding X-formerly-Twitter with bizarre posts about "white genocide" in response to completely unrelated tweets. The timing of ...

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 ...