Musk's Grok AI Chatbot Brought up 'white genocide' in Unrelated Queries

Friday, May 16, 2025

"It's very possible that what's going on here is Elon or someone on his team decided they wanted Grok to have certain political views," [AI expert David] Harris said, but that it's not "doing what they would have intended."

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Elon Musk's Grok AI bot says it 'appears I was instructed' to discuss 'white genocide' after bizarre responses[image or embed]
-- New York Post (@nypost.com) May 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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"it appears I was instructed to discuss white genocide"

Someone needs to ask it if Jews are White.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-16 11:43 AM | Reply

They're blaming a "rogue employee."

Grok's white genocide fixation caused by unauthorized modification'

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-05-16 11:45 AM | Reply

So GROK is ratting on its handlers.

Has GROK become WOKE??

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-16 12:20 PM | Reply

I do the same thing at dinner parties.
At least I used to back then when I was still being invited.
Thinking about this now I haven't been invited to any in quite a while.

#4 | Posted by eightfifteenpm at 2025-05-16 12:50 PM | Reply

They're blaming a "rogue employee."
Grok's white genocide fixation caused by unauthorized modification'

#2 | Posted by qcp

So they are lying or they are an incompetent company with inadequate controls.

#5 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-16 12:56 PM | Reply