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Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
"This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told ...
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to ...
xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa
In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been "instructed to accept white genocide as real and 'Kill the Boer' as ...
xAI investigates, Sam Altman roasts Grok’s ‘White Genocide’ glitch
Coincidentally, Musk, the leader of xAI and a Grok power user, has a known interest in the subject. In fact, he spent ...
Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post ...
A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession
Steven Adler breaks down recent erratic behavior from leading chatbots. It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI ...