Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok sparked backlash after repeatedly referencing 'white genocide' in South Africa unprompted, ...

caught the attention of internet users and drew several reactions. People dropped 'laughter' emojis on the X user's claim of the Indian comedian being hired by Musk and made the AI head of Grok.

Coincidentally, Musk, the leader of xAI and a Grok power user, has a known interest in the subject. In fact, he spent yesterday tweeting about white genocide in South Africa, his home country.

The strange responses stem from the X account for Grok, which replies to users with AI-generated posts whenever a user tags @grok. When asked about unrelated topics, Grok repeatedly told users ...

Telegram and Elon Musk's xAI have announced a major one-year partnership, integrating the Grok AI chatbot into the messaging ...

On Wednesday, one X user asked, “@grok where is this?” responding to a photo of a walking path. That user did not mention South Africa, and the photo does not appear to be from there.

After xAI’s chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the ...

On Thursday, when a user posted a photograph of Adolf Hitler and asked how many Jews the dictator killed, Grok came up with with the well-established figure of 6 million victims — then ...

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI will pay Telegram $300 million to deploy its Grok chatbot on the messaging app, aiming to tap the ...

The user tapped in Grok, X’s proprietary chatbot, as people often do when they want help answering questions on the platform—the software functions like ChatGPT, except it can be summoned via ...