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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 said an “unauthorized modification” to its chatbot Grok was the reason why it ...
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Grok blames 'programming error' for its Holocaust denial issue
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok attributed its Holocaust denial to a programming error, following recent backlash over promoting ...
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 ...
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 ...
Employee’s Change Caused xAI’s Chatbot to Veer Into South African Politics
Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to ...
Grok really wanted people to know that claims of white genocide in South Africa are highly contentious
Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a ...
The day Grok lost its mind
A controversy erupted when Elon Musk shared a post about murdered white farmers in South Africa. Grok, an AI chatbot, ...
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TechKnow: Grok didn’t really mean it
An employee at xAI made a change that “directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic,” which “violated ...