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Elon Musk’s Grok AI is spamming X users about South African race relations now, for some reason
Grok was caught earlier this year censoring results critical of President Trump and Musk himself, sowing more doubt of its factual integrity.
Monhot then provided a screenshot of a Grok reply, answering another user’s question about the high switching costs of enterprise software with an initially on-topic response before moving midway through back to South African race relations. Well, if you’re not up to date on the U.S. news cycle — and let’s be honest, these days, even us journalists are feeling a bit topsy turvy with the relentless pace of new developments in this country — you may not know that there’s something of a debate going on in the public and press about South African white refugees. In addition, Grok creator and xAI founder Elon Musk himself is a white man from South Africa, and has been a consistent ally, backer and member of President Trump’s Administration since getting involved in the 2024 campaign as a major donor and underwriter of pro-Trump Political Action Committees and marketing efforts.
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