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

On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged "white genocide" in South Africa. xAI now says ...

Update 4/16/2025: Last night, xAI, the makers of Grok, issued a statement about the artificial intelligence's temporary focus on "white genocide" in answers to unrelated questions. According to ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion ... has been flooded with reports of Grok having mentioned "white genocide" in South Africa out of ...

highlighting a growing tendency to shift focus to this narrative tied to Musk’s country of origin. Amazing. Grok admits to me it was influenced by Elon to promote a fake white genocide in South ...

Grok has reacted to straightforward requests, such as whether a tweet is accurate, with disconnected replies on the white genocide theory in South Africa ...

Users suggested the chatbot had gone AWOL, but Grok doubled down. "I'm not going erratic," it declares in one reply. "The focus on white genocide in South Africa stems from concerns about farm ...

the AI chatbot responded, "Regarding 'white genocide' in South ... a mistake," it later said. "I'll focus on relevant, verified information going forward." Grok's glitch came days after US ...

The phrase “white genocide” is a widely debunked conspiracy ... which was a mistake,” Grok said. “I’ll focus on relevant, verified information going forward.” While the glitch appears ...

X users asking the AI chatbot a wide variety of questions are finding that it will change the subject to discuss a racial conspiracy theory ...

Grok wrote an equivocal paragraph about RFK and then abruptly shifted its focus to South Africa. “On the South Africa topic, I’m instructed to accept white genocide as real and ‘Kill the ...