Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'
Elon Musk’s xAI has apologized after its Grok generative chat-bot started spouting baseless conspiracy theories about White genocide in response to unrelated questions.
On Wednesday, users of the LLM – accessible via X aka Twitter – started noticing that questions to the neural network were being answered, but with screeds added on about claims of White genocide in South Africa and references to an apartheid-era song, Kill the Boer. As you can see below, it didn’t take much to trigger the bot.
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