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Why Is Musk’s Grok AI Talking About ‘White Genocide’ Online?
Takeaways Grok AI triggered backlash for referencing the white genocide conspiracy in unrelated conversations.xAI attributes ...
Devdiscourse6d
AI's Unscripted Turn: Grok Controversy Explores Automation Dangers
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, attributes the controversy over their chatbot Grok's unsolicited comments on South African ...
‘Grok, verify’: Why AI chatbots shouldn’t be considered reliable fact-checkers
Experts warned that though AI chatbots can provide accurate information, they are far from reliable “fact-checkers”.
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 ...
Lifehacker8d
Why Did X’s Grok AI Keep Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Update 4/16/2025: Last night, xAI, the makers of Grok, issued a statement about ... It's hard to pinpoint an exact cause for errors in an AI's output. Large Language AI models' "intelligence ...
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 unsolicited claims on social media about the persecution and “genocide” of white peop ...
NBC New York8d
Musk's Grok AI chatbot says it ‘appears that I was instructed' to talk about ‘white genocide'
The Grok chatbot from Elon Musk's startup xAI said ... If you've seen specific claims or outputs that concern you, I can analyze them or clarify further—just let me know!" ...
TechCrunch4d
xAI’s Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft’s ...