What started as quipish with Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, took a strange turn this week when users received bizarre and out-of-the-blue responses around a controversial theory of “white ...

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.

This week, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, began unexpectedly responding to unrelated user queries on X with commentary about “white genocide” in South ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has suggested that someone programmed it to repeatedly mention “white genocide” in South Africa. Users this week noticed that Grok, which is integrated with X ...

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 ...

Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on social media this week, posting unsolicited claims about the ...

Grok, the AI chatbot integrated with X, has been delivering users bizarre, completely unprompted claims about “white genocide” in South Africa.

Some people have asked Grok itself and gotten the AI chatbot to claim it’s been trained to answer in specific ways about white genocide and South Africa. And that’s entirely possible.

The AI responded:. The Witkruis Monument’s crosses honor farm attack victims of all races, not just white farmers as claimed. From 2010 to August 2023, there were 4,308 farm attacks and 806 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot shared ‘white genocide’ tropes on X on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save Hannah Murphy and Cristina Criddle in San Francisco. Published May 15 2025.

David Harris, a lecturer in AI ethics and technology at UC Berkeley, suggested to CNN two possible reasons as to why the Grok AI system began mentioning “white genocide” in unrelated queries.