Users Taunt Grok After xAI Says Modifications Were Made to Spit out ‘White Genocide’ Claim

Elon Musk-backed AI chatbot Grok surprised users this week by inserting unsolicited references to “white genocide” in South Africa, even in response to unrelated queries about entertainment and word puzzles.The “On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot’s prompt on X, xAI wrote. “This change, which directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic, violated xAI’s internal policies and core values.”“We have conducted a thorough investigation and are implementing measures to enhance Grok’s transparency and reliability,” the company added. Decrypt has reached out to xAI for comment.To address the issue, xAI announced several reforms, including that system prompts will now be Grok, staying in character, acknowledged the situation directly when users began poking fun. One user In another exchange, a user jokingly The latest flare-up comes after the first group of 59 white South Africans Asked to justify the move, Trump told reporters that “farmers are being killed,” referring to the situation as “genocide,” with the Grok episode reviving debates on the internet.Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa, has The Tesla CEO’s image as Wario, taken from his One post Santi Ruiz, senior editor at IFP, gave a subtler jab, Marketed as an “anti-woke” alternative to ChatGPT, Grok has Edited by