Grok kept talking about ‘white genocide’ due to an ‘unauthorized modification’

In the early hours of May 14, xAI’s chatbot Grok repeatedly gave X users responses that referred to claims about a “white genocide” in South Africa even if their inquiries had nothing to do about the subject. Now, in a statement posted on the social network, Elon Musk‘s AI company has explained that “an unauthorized modification” to Grok’s prompt on X caused it to “provide a specific response on a political topic.” It didn’t say what had happened to the personnel involved in rolling out the rogue update. But it added that

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