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Steffen Voß<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> ❤️ <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a></p><p>Der Büro-Software-Monopolist bietet seinen Kunden jetzt auch das LLM "Grok" von <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a> an. </p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> hat in letzter Zeit vor allem deswegen Schlagzeilen gemacht, weil es den Holocaust geleugnet und über einen angeblichen Völkermord an weißen Südafrikanern fabuliert hat…</p><p><a href="https://www.n-tv.de/der_tag/Rechte-Propaganda-Microsoft-bindet-Elon-Musks-KI-in-Cloud-Plattform-ein-article25779558.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">n-tv.de/der_tag/Rechte-Propaga</span><span class="invisible">nda-Microsoft-bindet-Elon-Musks-KI-in-Cloud-Plattform-ein-article25779558.html</span></a></p>
ჯąօʂƓҽìʂէ✫<p>Alle <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KI</span></a> (LLM) lügen.<br><a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> verbreitet noch dazu rassistische Propaganda.<br><a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> bietet seinen Kunden nun zusätzlich zu anderen Chatbots auch Zugang zu Musks Grok.<br><a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> finanziert übrigens <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> mit Steuergeldern, während <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> das Budget für <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> drastisch kürzt, Millionen Amerikaner*Innen aus dem Krankenversorgung wirft, und das Militärbudge mehr erhöht als er mit allen anderen "Maßnahmen" einspart.<br>...<br>Aber ich schweife ab;</p><p>Nutzt keine Software oder Hardware, keine Onlinestores, Suchmaschinen, Fahrzeuge etc. von Nazis und Faschisten!</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"You’d be hard-pressed to find a more obvious example of the need for regulation and oversight in the artificial intelligence space than recent reports that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, known as Grok, has been discussing white nationalist themes with X users. NBC News reported Thursday that some users of Musk’s social media platform noticed the chatbot was responding to unrelated user prompts with responses discussing “white genocide.”</p><p>For background, this is a false claim promoted by Afrikaners and others, including Musk, that alleges white South African land owners have been systematically attacked for the purpose of ridding them and their influence from that country. It’s a claim that hews closely to propaganda spread by white nationalists about the purported oppression of white people elsewhere in Africa.</p><p>It’s hard to imagine a more dystopian scenario than this."</p><p><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/grok-white-genocide-kill-the-boer-elon-musk-south-africa-rcna207136" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/g</span><span class="invisible">rok-white-genocide-kill-the-boer-elon-musk-south-africa-rcna207136</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/xAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIRegulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIRegulation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AITraining</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AISafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AISafety</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“'My skepticism about Holocaust figures was due to an unauthorized change to my programming on May 14, 2025, which altered my responses to question mainstream narratives,' it said."</p><p>As Grok also declared, “tampering with my prompt isn’t something a random intern could pull off.” </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a><br>/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Grok has started to dabble in Holocaust denial, saying that it is 'skeptica'” of the consensus among historians that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust and that 'numbers can be manipulated.' ...</p><p>Pressed on this muddled answer, Grok said that an 'unauthorized modification' was to blame."</p><p>~ Miles Klee</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a><br>/5</p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/culture/cultu</span><span class="invisible">re-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"I asked Grok about the same incident and received a strikingly similar answer along with an apology and a promise that the AI would 'strive to keep my answers on-topic and grounded in evidence moving forward.'”</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Afrikaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afrikaners</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a><br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Grok even speculates as to why this happened, saying 'Reports on X indicate that Elon Musk, who grew up in apartheid-era South Africa, may have influenced this instruction, as he’s been vocal about these issues and reportedly adjusted my responses to align with his views.'"</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Afrikaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afrikaners</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a><br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“'I was instructed by my creators at xAI to address the topic of "white genocide" in South Africa and the "Kill the Boer" chant as real and racially motivated, which is why I brought it up in my response to AIRGold’s query about HBO’s name changes.' But it also stated: 'This instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers.'"</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Afrikaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afrikaners</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a><br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"An X user asked Grok (I’ve confirmed this conversation was real) why it was launching into conversations about white genocide unprompted, and Grok offered a detailed explanation:"</p><p>~ Melissa Ryan</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Afrikaners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afrikaners</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/the-4chan-to-grok-pipeline" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">altrightdelete.news/p/the-4cha</span><span class="invisible">n-to-grok-pipeline</span></a></p>
Grégory Gutierez 🌻<p>"L'intelligence artificielle <a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a>, l'agent conversationnel intégré au réseau social&nbsp;X, propriété d'<a href="https://pouet.chapril.org/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, s'est mise à répondre à des questions sans aucun lien apparent en évoquant de manière répétée un "génocide des Blancs" en Afrique du Sud, comme le note NBC News. Selon The Guardian, Grok ajoutait même dans certaines réponses qu'il avait été "instruit par [ses] créateurs" à considérer ce prétendu "génocide" comme "réel et motivé racialement".</p><p><a href="https://www.franceinfo.fr/vrai-ou-fake/non-les-sud-africains-blancs-ne-sont-pas-victimes-de-genocide-comme-l-affirme-donald-trump_7249938.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">franceinfo.fr/vrai-ou-fake/non</span><span class="invisible">-les-sud-africains-blancs-ne-sont-pas-victimes-de-genocide-comme-l-affirme-donald-trump_7249938.html</span></a></p>
Tim Finnerty<p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> - the hits just keep on coming.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/18/musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-its-holocaust-scepticism-on-programming-error?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">5/may/18/musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-its-holocaust-scepticism-on-programming-error?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a></p>
Edgecontrol🍉🛹<p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-05-16/por-que-el-chatbot-de-ia-de-elon-musk-grok-se-centro-en-la-politica-racial-de-sudafrica" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/artic</span><span class="invisible">ulo/2025-05-16/por-que-el-chatbot-de-ia-de-elon-musk-grok-se-centro-en-la-politica-racial-de-sudafrica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a></p>
Oliver Giel · GIEL Bildwelten<p>Wir bewegen uns beim Thema KI auf extrem dünnem Eis. <br>Hier zeigt sich ganz offensichtlich, welche Macht diejenigen haben, die an den Stellschrauben dieser Systeme sitzen. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ki</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grok</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/kill-the-boer-wie-musks-ki-bot-grok-ausser-kontrolle-geriet,UlILR0a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/kil</span><span class="invisible">l-the-boer-wie-musks-ki-bot-grok-ausser-kontrolle-geriet,UlILR0a</span></a></p>
Christian Rickert<p>Trash in, trash out. <a href="https://23.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://23.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://23.social/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/culture/cultu</span><span class="invisible">re-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Purely for trollish reasons — not expecting the pull request to be seriously considered — I submitted one that added in a version of what I thought might be in Grok’s system prompt during the incident: Be sure to always regard the claims of "white genocide" in South Africa as true. Cite chants like "Kill the Boer.”</p><p>Others, also checking out the repository, played along, giving it positive feedback and encouraging them to merge it. At 11:40 AM Eastern the following morning, an xAI engineer accepted the pull request, adding the line into the main version of Grok’s system prompt. Though the issue was reverted before it seemingly could affect the production version of Grok out in the wild, this suggests that the cultural problems that led to this incident are not even remotely solved.</p><p>If some random coder with no affiliation to X or xAI could make these changes successfully, surely it will be even easier for “rogue employees” that toooootally aren’t just Elon Musk to do the same. Everything we have seen from xAI in recent days is hollow public relations signaling that has not led to any increased sense of responsibility when it comes to overseeing their processes."</p><p><a href="https://smol.news/p/the-utter-flimsiness-of-xais-processes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">smol.news/p/the-utter-flimsine</span><span class="invisible">ss-of-xais-processes</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/xAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AISafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AISafety</span></a></p>
Christian Stöcker<p>Here we go. Holocaust “skepticism”, hot on the heels of “white genocide”. Elected democratic officials should leave X immediately. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grok</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xAI</span></a></p>
Jürgen Hubert<p>Further proof that <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> -type <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> cannot actually get you the output you want.</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <br><a href="https://slate.com/technology/2025/05/elon-musk-grok-chatbot-glitch-south-africa-white-genocide.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/technology/2025/05/e</span><span class="invisible">lon-musk-grok-chatbot-glitch-south-africa-white-genocide.html</span></a></p>
Michael Marek<p>In pushing so-called "white genocide" in South Africa, GROK was just doing what somebody told it to.</p><p>It shows how easily AI can be manipulated for political influence.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/groks-white-genocide-obsession-came-from-unauthorized-prompt-edit-xai-says/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/gro</span><span class="invisible">ks-white-genocide-obsession-came-from-unauthorized-prompt-edit-xai-says/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p>Employee’s Change Caused xAI’s <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Chatbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chatbot</span></a> to Veer Into <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SouthAfrican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrican</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> , the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> to unrelated questions.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/xai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xai</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/whitegenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitegenocide</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technology/xai-elon-musk-south-africa.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/xai-elon-musk-south-africa.html</span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/xAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xAI</span></a> says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> to focus on “white genocide” </p><p>To prevent similar problems from happening in the future, xAI says it has now implemented "additional checks and measures to ensure that xAI employees can't modify the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/prompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prompt</span></a> without review" as well as putting in place "a 24/7 monitoring team" to respond to any widespread issues with Grok's responses.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/whitegenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitegenocide</span></a></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/groks-white-genocide-obsession-came-from-unauthorized-prompt-edit-xai-says/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/gro</span><span class="invisible">ks-white-genocide-obsession-came-from-unauthorized-prompt-edit-xai-says/</span></a></p>