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Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’
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 ...
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Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk's AI company xAI, admitted to unprompted references to "white genocide" in South Africa in response to unrelated user questions. After Fortune asked it for an ...
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Grok's 'white genocide' responses show how generative AI can be weaponized
The AI chatbot Grok spent one day in May 2025 spreading debunked conspiracy theories about "white genocide" in South Africa, ...
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Here's how AI "factchecks" can sow misinformation – should chatbots be trusted?
With tech platforms reducing human fact-checkers, users are leaning on AI chatbots like xAI's Grok, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and ...
Musk Says Grok Will Be Fixed After It Tells the Truth About Right-Wing Terrorism
The billionaire has previously pledged to adjust his AI chatbot in order to make it agree with his extremist politics ...
Microsoft to rank ‘safety’ of AI models sold to cloud customers
Tech group’s corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI ...
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Elon Musk's xAI partners with messaging app Telegram in $300 million Grok deal
xAI and Telegram did not immediately respond ... comments about the controversial topic of "white genocide" in South Africa. xAI said the responses were triggered by an "unauthorized modification ...