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Why was Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with South Africa’s racial politics?
Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on ...
What Elon Musk's Grok AI controversy reveals about chatbots
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has come under fire for repeatedly spreading far-right conspiracy theories ...
Microsoft Adds Musk’s Grok Models to Azure AI Foundry, Risks OpenAI’s Disapproval
The announcement was made at Microsoft’s Build developer conference on Monday, and was notable given Microsoft’s partnership ...
Uh, is Grok OK? Elon Musk's AI chatbot develops South Africa fixation
If you have a question for Grok today, there's a chance X's AI chatbot replied by talking about "white genocide" in South ...
Elon Musk's AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa's racial politics was 'unauthorised'
The episode was the latest window into the complicated mix of automation and human engineering that leads generative AI ...
Grok really wanted people to know that claims of white genocide in South Africa are highly contentious
Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a ...
A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession
Steven Adler breaks down recent erratic behavior from leading chatbots. It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI ...
Elon Musk’s Grok AI bot says it ‘appears I was instructed’ to discuss ‘white genocide’ after bizarre responses
The artificial intelligence model had bizarrely mentioned the subject in answers to unrelated user queries about HBO’s name ...
Trump alleges 'genocide' in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff
Topping the agenda at President Donald Trump’s meeting with South Africa’s president at the White House this week is the extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy welcoming white Afrikaner farmers who the ...