Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said an “unauthorized modification” to its chatbot Grok was the reason why it kept talking about South African racial politics and the subject of “white genocide” on social media this week.

Grok seems to have been programmed to defend claims of white genocide in South Africa. Now it’s all it can talk about.

Takeaways Grok AI triggered backlash for referencing the white genocide conspiracy in unrelated conversations.xAI attributes the issue to unauthorized backend m