Elon Musk's social media platform, X, landed itself in hot water on Wednesday after its integrated AI chatbot, Grok, kept bringing up "white genocide in South Africa" in response to unrelated posts.

AI chatbot Grok on Tuesday offered conflicting explanations for its brief suspension from X after accusing Israel and the ...

xAI blamed "an unauthorized modification" for its chatbot Grok giving users off-topic and false responses about "white genocide" in South Africa this week. Why it matters: xAI owner Elon Musk, who ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has been seen ranting about “white genocide” in South Africa unprompted by users. On Wednesday (14 May), the AI bot Grok on X/Twitter ...

AI chatbot Grok on Tuesday offered conflicting explanations for its brief suspension from X after accusing Israel and the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The AI chatbot Grok spent one day in May 2025 spreading debunked conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa, echoing views publicly voiced by Elon Musk, the ...

That controversial topic was “white genocide” in South Africa, and Grok was providing unprompted responses on the issue with such frequency that it led to an uproar among its user base.