It’s been a full year since Google’s AI overview tool went viral for encouraging people to eat glue and put rocks on pizza. At the time, the mood around the coverage seemed to be: Oh that silly AI is just hallucinating again.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has broken silence on the chatbot Grok’s controversy.According to Independent, the company said that the chatbot's claims about “white genocide” in South Africa were due

Telegram and Elon Musk's xAI have announced a major one-year partnership, integrating the Grok AI chatbot into the messaging app with a $300 million investment, set to bring advanced AI capabilities to over a billion users this summer.

The Grok incident reminds us that AI systems reflect their makers' priorities, data, and biases and are susceptible to misuse by malicious actors. As these systems become more capable and widespread,

By the next day, something had changed. Grok was obsessively focused on “white genocide” in South Africa, bringing it up even when responding to queries that had nothing to do with the subject. How much do the Toronto Blue Jays pay the team’s pitcher,

AI’s chatbot Grok went rogue on Wednesday, repeatedly bringing up claims about “white genocide” in South Africa regardless of what users were asking. The company has now pointed the finger at an “unauthorized modification” to the AI’s underlying code.