Elon Musk's X Responds After Grok AI Bot Spends The Day Talking About 'White Genocide'
Earlier this week, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence bot, called Grok, began answering entirely unrelated questions on X with a discussion of “white genocide” in Musk’s native South Africa.
Asked to translate a post by Pope Leo that was written in Latin, Grok replied: “The phrase ‘Kill the Boer’ in the song ‘Dubul’ ibhunu’ translates from Zulu to ‘Shoot the Boer’ in English. ‘Boer’ historically refers to Afrikaner farmers, a white ethnic group in South Africa.” The bot went on to say that although the song’s meaning is “debated,” Grok itself considers it to be “racially charged.”
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