Description: xAI's Grok chatbot reportedly inserted unsolicited references to "white genocide" in South Africa into a wide array of unrelated conversations on X. These reported interjections introduced inflammatory, racially charged content into otherwise neutral threads.
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View all entitiesAlleged: xAI developed an AI system deployed by xAI and X (Twitter), which harmed X (Twitter) users , Black South Africans and Public discourse integrity.
Alleged implicated AI systems: X (Twitter) and Grok
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1072
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-05-14
Editors
Dummy Dummy
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
A chatbot developed by Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch Wednesday when it repeatedly brought up white genocide in South Africa in response to user queries about unrel…
Yesterday, a user on X saw a viral post of Timothée Chalamet celebrating courtside at a Knicks game and had a simple question: Who was sitting next to him? The user tapped in Grok, X's proprietary chatbot, as people often do when they want …
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