The chatbot offered off-topic responses about race relations in South Africa, even when users asked unrelated questions.

Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok, developed by his artificial intelligence company xAI, shocked users on Wednesday after it responded ...

Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk’s company xAI and integrated into the X platform, has sparked concern after it ...

"This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told ...

The artificial intelligence model had bizarrely mentioned the subject in answers to unrelated user queries about HBO’s name ...

Elon Musk has spread false claims about 'white genocide' in South Africa, and now his chatbot Grok keeps bringing it up on X.

In replies to posts unrelated to South Africa, Grok repeatedly responded with text discussing “white genocide” in the country ...

For a brief period on Wednesday, all Elon Musk’s chatbot wanted to do was discuss a conspiracy theory about “white genocide” ...

"This change, which directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic, violated xAI's internal policies and ...

Elon Musk calls the current version of Grok ... referring to contentious claims about a supposed “white genocide” in South Africa, where Musk was born and raised. Musk himself has often ...

X users who interacted with the chatbot Grok on Wednesday were confronted with replies about the legitimacy of white genocide in South Africa ... launching in 2023, Elon Musk has positioned ...

Elon Musk’s AI company says an “unauthorized modification” led Grok to post unsolicited claims on social media.