If you have a question for Grok today, there's a chance X's AI chatbot replied by talking about "white genocide" in South Africa, a controversial talking point in far-right circles.

The chatbot offered off-topic responses about race relations in South Africa, even when users asked unrelated questions.

In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been "instructed to accept white genocide as real and 'Kill the Boer' as ...

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok experienced a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to posts on X with info about South ...

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

Interestingly, Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, contradicted these claims, and South African residents also debunked them.

Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a ...

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

Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s X.AI and integrated into the X social media platform, has in recent days begun responding to users with information about violence against white people in ...

Pressed by users about why it had given this unrelated response, Grok was somewhat conciliatory but kept expounding on race relations in South Africa. “I apologize for the confusion,” it ...

What happened if you asked Grok to speak in the style of Star Wars character Jar-Jar Binks? It’ll do that, of course, but then it’ll inject some garbage about South Africa and genocide as well.