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Grok AI: 'Rogue Employee' Told Me to Post About White Genocide in South Africa
Elon Musk's xAI confirms an 'unauthorized modification' caused the chatbot's political outbursts. The issue highlights how AI ...
Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
"This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told ...
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to ...
xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”
On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward ...
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 ...
xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa
In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been "instructed to accept white genocide as real and 'Kill the Boer' as ...