Grok also found no credible evidence supporting large-scale corruption allegations at Baragwanath Hospital as described. "A standard loaf of bread in South Africa costs about R16 to R19 (USD 0.83 ...

And for the most part, Grok has performed reasonably well at providing responses. But not yesterday. Chalamet was sitting ...

Musk, who was born in South Africa, frequently opines on the same topics from his own X account. Computer scientist Jen Golbeck was curious about Grok’s unusual behavior so she tried it herself ...

The xAI bot would maybe nod to the user query before launching into a screed about the “debate” over whether Afrikaners have been subjected to racially targeted violence in South Africa. Grok ...

Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to unrelated questions. By Kate Conger Reporting from San Francisco Elon ...

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.

On Wednesday, one X user asked, “@grok where is this?” responding to a photo of a walking path. That user did not mention South Africa, and the photo does not appear to be from there.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok appeared to experience a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to dozens of posts on X with information about “white genocide” in South Africa, even when the ...

Remember, the question here was, "you ok?" Where could Grok have gotten these ideas? The treatment of white farmers in South Africa has been a hobbyhorse of South African X owner Elon Musk for ...

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 ...

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. On X ...

X users who interacted with the chatbot Grok on Wednesday were confronted with replies about the legitimacy of white genocide in South Africa—often regardless of context. In one post ...