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Elon Musk’s xAI tries to explain Grok’s South African race relations freakout the other day
With its prompts now public and a team of human babysitters on call, Grok is supposedly back on script. But the incident underscores...
If you asked the Grok AI chatbot built into Elon Musk’s social network X a question yesterday — something innocuous, like why enterprise software is hard to replace — you may have gotten an unsolicited message about claims of “white genocide” in South Africa (largely lacking evidence) due to attacks on farmers and the song “Kill the Boer.” Grok’s behavior threw users for a loop earlier this week when it began peppering nearly every thread — no matter the topic — with strangely specific commentary on South African race relations. Trump defended it by repeating claims that white South African farmers face genocide-level violence — a narrative that’s been widely disputed by journalists, courts, and human rights groups.
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