If you have a question for Grok today, there's a chance X's AI chatbot replied by talking about "white genocide" in South Africa, a controversial talking point in far-right circles.

The chatbot offered off-topic responses about race relations in South Africa, even when users asked unrelated questions.

Elon Musk faces backlash for sharing a ... Musk and Grok have been embroiled in controversy regarding South Africa. Recently, Grok's preoccupation with South African racial politics led to ...

Grok was caught earlier this year censoring results critical of President Trump and Musk himself, sowing more doubt of its factual integrity.

X’s Grok has been responding to unrelated prompts with discussions of “white genocide” in South Africa, one of Musk’s hobbyhorses.

In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information ...

X users asking the AI chatbot a wide variety of questions are finding that it will change the subject to discuss a racial conspiracy theory ...

Elon Musk has baselessly argued ... the bot again brought up “white genocide in South Africa.” Musk did not respond to a request for comment on Grok’s recent behavior. An email to xAI ...

Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial ... to make their best guesses. “Grok randomly blurting out opinions about white genocide in South Africa smells to me like the sort of buggy ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence ... A day earlier, Grok kept posting publicly about “white genocide” in South Africa in response to users of Musk’s social media platform X who asked ...

Grok seems to have been programmed to defend claims of white genocide in South Africa. Now it’s all it can talk about.