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Grok AI Is Replying to Random Tweets With Information About 'White Genocide'


Elon Musk's AI is obsessed with the South African conspiracy theory.

First spotted by New York Times investigations journalist Aric Toler, Gizmodo was able to confirm this bizarre glitch was happening with our own experiment Wednesday. We searched Musk’s social media platform X for the term “puppy” and saw a very innocuous tweet from Brian Stack, a comedy writer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “The budgeting scenario in @dril’s post is not true; it’s satire meant to humorously exaggerate spending, like $3,600 on candles, which is unrealistic for most,” Grok responded.

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