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May 17 from https://www.cnbc.com/technology/

Grok's 'white genocide' auto responses show AI chatbots can be tampered with 'at will'

Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images In the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem. Hallucinations, bad math and cultural biases have plagued results, reminding users that there's a limit to how much we can rely on AI, at least for now. Elon Musk's Grok...

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May 16 from https://arstechnica.com/

Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says

On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged "white genocide" in South Africa. xAI now says that odd behavior was the result of "an unauthorized modification" to the Grok system prompt—the core set of directions for how the LLM should behave. That prompt modification "directed Grok to provide...

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May 16 from https://venturebeat.com/

Elon Musk’s xAI tries to explain Grok’s South African race relations freakout the other day

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More If you asked the Grok AI chatbot built into Elon Musk’s social network X a question yesterday — something innocuous, like why enterprise software is hard to replace — you may have gotten an unsolicited message about claims of “white genocide” in South Africa (largely...

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May 15 from https://www.404media.co/

Why Did Grok Start Talking About ‘White Genocide’?

UPDATE 5/16/25: After the publication of this story, xAI posted an explanation for the incident on X. "On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot's prompt on X. This change, which directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic, violated xAI's internal policies and core values." For a few hours on Wednsday, X’s Grok...

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May 14 from https://venturebeat.com/

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is spamming X users about South African race relations now, for some reason

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has sought to compete with category leaders like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic for individual consumers and app developers as customers, but a new development with its signature chatbot assistant Grok seems unlikely to help it win...

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