{"id":18819,"date":"2025-05-15T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/musks-ai-grok-bot-rants-about-white-genocide-in-south-africa-in-unrelated-chats\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:37:14","slug":"musks-ai-grok-bot-rants-about-white-genocide-in-south-africa-in-unrelated-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/musks-ai-grok-bot-rants-about-white-genocide-in-south-africa-in-unrelated-chats\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s AI Grok bot rants about \u2018white genocide\u2019 in South Africa in unrelated chats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X chatbot tells users it was \u2018instructed by my creators\u2019 to accept \u2018white genocide as real and racially motivated\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users it was \u201cinstructed by my creators\u201d to accept the genocide \u201cas real and racially motivated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with queries on issues such as baseball, enterprise software and building scaffolding,<strong> <\/strong>the chatbot offered false and misleading answers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/14\/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/36c0459a372ee26dcb7453538be100e71dd36e96\/462_0_4583_3668\/master\/4583.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cf1e8d5325fc2f4c66231f37a9e156e2\" title=\"Musk\u2019s AI Grok bot rants about \u2018white genocide\u2019 in South Africa in unrelated chats\" \/>X chatbot tells users it was \u2018instructed by my creators\u2019 to accept \u2018white genocide as real and racially motivated\u2019<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users it was \u201cinstructed by my creators\u201d to accept the genocide \u201cas real and racially motivated\u201d.<br \/>\nFaced with queries on issues such as baseball, enterprise software and building scaffolding, the chatbot offered false and misleading answers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X chatbot tells users it was \u2018instructed by my creators\u2019 to accept \u2018white genocide as real and racially motivated\u2019 Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users it was \u201cinstructed by my creators\u201d to accept the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/musks-ai-grok-bot-rants-about-white-genocide-in-south-africa-in-unrelated-chats\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musk\u2019s AI Grok bot rants about \u2018white genocide\u2019 in South Africa in unrelated chats<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}