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For hours, chatbot Grok wanted to talk about a 'white genocide'. It gave a window into the pitfalls of AI
X's AI chatbot Grok brought up claims of a "white genocide" under swathes of unrelated posts. For some, it was a warning ...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Breaking Rules to Install Grok in Government
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is letting his glitchy Grok AI chatbot sift through potentially sensitive ...
Why Did X’s Grok AI Keep Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Elon Musk’s Grok AI went off the rails recently, inserting white genocide conspiracy theories into unrelated queries. Here's ...
Why was Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with South Africa’s racial politics?
Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on ...
Musk's Grok AI chatbot says it ‘appears that I was instructed' to talk about ‘white genocide'
Grok’s answer had changed, and the chatbot said it “wasn’t programmed to give any answers promoting or endorsing harmful ...
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Why Is Musk’s Grok AI Talking About ‘White Genocide’ Online?
Takeaways Grok AI triggered backlash for referencing the white genocide conspiracy in unrelated conversations.xAI attributes ...
Grok AI’s “Skeptical” Take on Holocaust Deaths, Followed by Error Claim
Grok AI questioned Holocaust deaths, sparking outrage. It later claimed a "rogue employee" that caused a programming error ...
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Musk’s xAI Blames ‘White Genocide’ Comments From Grok Chatbot on Internal Tampering
Elon Musk’s xAI faces backlash after its Grok chatbot referenced “white genocide,” prompting an internal probe and new ...
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Elon Musk's AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa's racial politics was 'unauthorized'
“The claim of white genocide is highly controversial," began Grok's response to Golbeck ... Musk has spent years criticizing the “woke AI” outputs he says come out of rival chatbots ...