Elon Musk‘s company xAI has now addressed recent strange behavior from its Grok chatbot, claiming that an "unauthorized modification" caused it to bring up the myth of "white genocide" in South ...

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot from xAI is no longer posting about the myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa but has dabbled in Holocaust denial.

xAI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to "white genocide in South Africa" when invoked in certain contexts on X.

Elon Musk’s xAI on Thursday evening made its first public comment about the latest controversy surrounding Grok, writing in a post on X that an “unauthorized modification” caused the chatbot ...

xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide” Meanwhile, Grok's authorized prompt asks it to "provide truthful and based insights." ...

Elon Musk's xAI said on Thursday night that its Grok response bot kept talking about "white genocide" in South Africa under unrelated posts because of an "unauthorized modification" on the backend ...

After xAI’s chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the ...

Elon Musk's xAI said on Thursday night that its Grok response bot kept talking about "white genocide" in South Africa under unrelated posts because of an "unauthorized modification" on the backend.

Elon Musk's xAI said an "unauthorized modification" to its Grok chatbot led to unprompted responses about "white genocide" in South Africa. Numerous X users posted screenshots of Grok offering ...

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

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok turned unrelated questions on several different issues back to an insistence that white genocide is ‘real.’ It was responding to a code manipulation said xAI ...

xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa The topic has long been a hobbyhorse of X owner Elon Musk.