AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to "white genocide in South Africa" when invoked in certain contexts on X.

X’s Grok has been responding to unrelated prompts with discussions of “white genocide” in South Africa, one of Musk’s hobbyhorses.

And for the most part, Grok has performed reasonably well at providing responses. But not yesterday. Chalamet was sitting ...

Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on ...

The artificial intelligence model had bizarrely mentioned the subject in answers to unrelated user queries about HBO’s name ...

People are debating whether Elon Musk programmed his chatbot to spread propaganda about South Africa. But it doesn’t matter: ...

In late 2023, Elon Musk said his one goal for his AI chatbot, Grok, was for it to be the "funniest" AI after criticizing other chatbots for being too woke. But sometimes that can go too far.

Virginia Giuffre's family confirmed her death by suicide, but AI chatbot Grok disputes this, stating she is alive after a car accident in March 2025(X/Virginia Giuffre, AFP) However, when an X ...

This news was followed by online confusion when Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, offered contradictory accounts of Giuffre's fate. Initially, Grok stated that Giuffre had survived a car accident in ...

Climate contrarians falsely claim a paper written by artificial intelligence chatbot Grok debunks the science on climate change - Copyright AFP Lionel BONAVENTURE ...

Musk calls the xAI supercomputer “Colossus.” It is tasked with providing compute power for xAI’s chatbot Grok. The building that houses Colossus is the size of 13 soccer fields, and Musk has said he ...