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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 ...
Grok Saw 'Unauthorized Modification' Before Slew of 'White Genocide' Posts
Grok's developer has said an "unauthorized modification" took place after users reported the chatbot founded by Elon Musk was ...
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 ...
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 ...
Uh, is Grok OK? Elon Musk's AI chatbot develops South Africa fixation
If you have a question for Grok today, there's a chance X's AI chatbot replied by talking about "white genocide" in South ...
Zeynep Tufekci: The day Grok lost its mind
As is now well known, large language models produce many factual answers, but also some that are completely made up, and it’s ...
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 ...
Nearly 300 workers trapped in South African gold mine
South Africa's Sibanye-Stillwater SSWJ.J said on Friday that it was working to bring to the surface 260 miners, who were ...