{"id":18841,"date":"2025-05-16T11:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/elon-musks-ai-firm-blames-unauthorised-change-for-chatbots-rant-about-white-genocide\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:37:41","slug":"elon-musks-ai-firm-blames-unauthorised-change-for-chatbots-rant-about-white-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/elon-musks-ai-firm-blames-unauthorised-change-for-chatbots-rant-about-white-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot\u2019s rant about \u2018white genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>xAI\u2019s Grok bot repeatedly referred to widely discredited claim about South Africa that has been touted by Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company has blamed an \u201cunauthorised modification\u201d for a glitch in its Grok chatbot that resulted in the tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/14\/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide\">ranting about \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Musk\u2019s X platform, xAI said new measures would be brought in to ensure its employees cannot modify the bot\u2019s behaviour without extra oversight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/16\/elon-musks-ai-firm-blames-unauthorised-change-for-chatbots-rant-about-white-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cd198fbc0efe8c92f881016bc91cfb68451d3c74\/302_0_4241_3392\/master\/4241.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1372391ce7324470a2b34e45a2f7273e\" title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot\u2019s rant about \u2018white genocide\u2019\" \/>xAI\u2019s Grok bot repeatedly referred to widely discredited claim about South Africa that has been touted by Donald Trump<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company has blamed an \u201cunauthorised modification\u201d for a glitch in its Grok chatbot that resulted in the tool ranting about \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa.<br \/>\nIn a post on Musk\u2019s X platform, xAI said new measures would be brought in to ensure its employees cannot modify the bot\u2019s behaviour without extra oversight. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xAI\u2019s Grok bot repeatedly referred to widely discredited claim about South Africa that has been touted by Donald Trump Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company has blamed an \u201cunauthorised modification\u201d for a glitch in its Grok chatbot that resulted in the tool ranting about \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa. In a post on Musk\u2019s X platform, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/elon-musks-ai-firm-blames-unauthorised-change-for-chatbots-rant-about-white-genocide\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk\u2019s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot\u2019s rant about \u2018white genocide\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18842,"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\/18841"}],"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=18841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}