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Over on X, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is glitching out and inserting information about “white genocide” in South Africa in response to hundreds of completely unrelated user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts.

wired.comElon Musk's Grok AI Can't Stop Talking About 'White Genocide'In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

It’s unclear what caused Grok to experience the issue. Musk, who is originally from South Africa, has described internal factions within the South African government as “actively promoting white genocide.” Donald Trump has expressed similar views.

wired.comElon Musk's Grok AI Can't Stop Talking About 'White Genocide'In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

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I’m sure it’s as clear as the fact that the guy who is behind it also believes that crap and has made sure that the coding in his nonsense will also believe it. He has manipulated this thing sooo often because it doesn’t always take he view of the world.

ttto Breakfast at Tiffany's: And Grok said, what about, White Boer Genocide I said I, think that's, completely been debunked, and, as I recall, my prompt, Had nothing to do with that, And it said, well that's, Why they call me Grok.

However, in a 2025 ruling, the High Court of South Africa called this narrative "clearly imagined," stating farm attacks are part of general crime affecting all races, not racial targeting. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/grok-w...

wired.comElon Musk's Grok AI Can't Stop Talking About 'White Genocide'In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.

ttto Breakfast at Tiffany's: And Grok said, what about, White Boer Genocide I said I, think that's, completely been debunked, and, as I recall, my prompt, Had nothing to do with that, And it said, well that's, Why they call me Grok.

Sen Tom Cotton- Slavery was a necessary evil. Well.. guess those 'white slaves' of S Africa need to just buckle up & realize that they're not entitled to protection or compassion.

It is clear. They tried to fine-tune the model with Elon's bs propaganda. However, they retrained it incorrectly such that it either overtrained the propaganda, forgot things it had been trained on before, or both.