Elon Musk's X Responds After Grok AI Bot Spends The Day Talking About 'White Genocide'

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The clarification comes less than 48 hours after Grok — the chatbot from Musk’s xAI that is available through his social media platform, X — began bombarding users with unfounded genocidal theories in response to queries about completely off-topic subjects.
CNN
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On Wednesday, numerous X users posted screenshots of answers that Grok wrote on the topic despite being asked about completely unrelated matters such as baseball salaries and cartoons.
CNBC
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The Grok bot repeatedly referred to a white genocide in South Africa – a discredited claim promoted by Donald Trump among other US populist figures – this week in responses to unrelated queries.
Guardian
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Elon Musk's AI company did clarify who made the change to the bot that caused it to bring up the contested idea of "white genocide" in South Africa without relevant prompting.
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