Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has suggested that someone programmed it to repeatedly mention “white genocide” in South Africa. Users this week noticed that Grok, which is integrated with X ...

Elon Musk’s xAI has blamed its Grok chatbot’s recent habit of randomly posting about “white genocide” in South Africa on a rogue employee who made an “unauthorized modification” to its ...

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 ...

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot mentioned “white genocide” in several random answers, according to screenshots of social media posts. The bot on Wednesday admitted to users that it appears it was ...

For hours, regardless of what users asked the chatbot about—memes, ironic jokes, Linux software—many queries to Grok were met with a small meditation on South Africa and white genocide.

May 16 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's xAI responded to widespread reports that its Grok chatbot made claims about a genocide against white citizens in South Africa, saying there had been an unauthorized ...

Some X users on Wednesday asked Grok – the AI chatbot available through Elon Musk’s social media platform – questions about simple topics like baseball players or videos of fish being ...

On Tuesday and Wednesday alone, the bot mentioned Musk in over a dozen replies, mostly highlighting his claim about a white genocide. Still, the chatbot has also contradicted Musk.

The AI chatbot Grok spent one day in May 2025 spreading debunked conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa, ...

Elon Musk’s xAI has blamed its Grok chatbot’s recent habit of randomly posting about “white genocide” in South Africa on a rogue employee who made an “unauthorized modification” to its ...

(Reuters) -Elon Musk's xAI responded to widespread reports that its Grok chatbot made claims about a genocide against white citizens in South Africa, saying there had been an unauthorized change ...

“As for “white genocide” in South Africa, ‘tis a stormy claim! Some cry it be real, pointin’ to farm attacks—50 or so a year, say groups like AfriForum, blamin’ racial motives.