Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats
15-05-2025 03:07 via theguardian.com

Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats

Chatbot goes on hours-long fritz, repeatedly mentioning ‘white genocide’, which it is ‘instructed to accept as real’Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok went on the fritz on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses on completely unrelated topics. It also told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”.Faced with queries on i
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