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Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post ...
What Elon Musk's Grok AI controversy reveals about chatbots
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has come under fire for repeatedly spreading far-right conspiracy theories ...
Um, is Grok OK? Elon Musk's AI chatbot develops South Africa fixation
Have a question for Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok about the latest baseball news? Or maybe an inquiry about your local weather?
Why was Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with South Africa’s racial politics?
Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on ...
Microsoft Adds Musk’s Grok Models to Azure AI Foundry, Risks OpenAI’s Disapproval
The announcement was made at Microsoft’s Build developer conference on Monday, and was notable given Microsoft’s partnership ...
Grok really wanted people to know that claims of white genocide in South Africa are highly contentious
Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a ...
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 ...
Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
"This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told ...