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Employee’s Change Caused xAI’s Chatbot to Veer Into South African Politics
Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to ...
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to ...
xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”
On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward ...
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Grok AI: 'Rogue Employee' Told Me to Post About White Genocide in South Africa
Elon Musk's xAI confirms an 'unauthorized modification' caused the chatbot's political outbursts. The issue highlights how AI ...
xAI investigates, Sam Altman roasts Grok’s ‘White Genocide’ glitch
Coincidentally, Musk, the leader of xAI and a Grok power user, has a known interest in the subject. In fact, he spent ...
xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa
In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been "instructed to accept white genocide as real and 'Kill the Boer' as ...
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Guess Who: xAI Blames a 'Rogue Employee' for 'White Genocide' Grok Posts
Users aren't buying xAI's explanation after Musk's Grok started randomly injecting "white genocide" into conversations.
A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession
Steven Adler breaks down recent erratic behavior from leading chatbots. It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI ...