Developed chatbot It seemed that through the multi -million startup Elon Muska Xai suffers from a fault on Wednesday, when he repeatedly raised white genocide in South Africa in response to user queries on unrelated topics on the X. GROK, which competes with other hutbots, such as OpenAI’s chatgpt, is directly integrated with the social media platform, which he also Musk.
Numerous examples of this phenomenon can be found by searching the official groc profile for posts containing the term “Boer,“Word used To refer to people from South Africa, “Dutch, German or Huguenot.” This is Sometimes used by the black inhabitants of South Africa as a pejorative against white Africans or people associated with the Apartheid regime. In response to topics from the streaming platform Change of the name HBO Maxa Down Medicaid cuts Proposed by American legislators, Chatbot often seemed initially to remain on the subject before he returned to the white genocide in South Africa, completely unevenly.
When he asked To confirm the player’s salary of Toronto Blue Jays Max Scherzeer, for example, the generative chatbot of artificial intelligence shot in the explanation of white genocide and the controversial South African Antiapartheid song.
The “claim of” white genocide “in South Africa is highly discussed. Some say that white farmers are dealing with disproportionate violence, and groups such as Afriforum report high murder indicators and cite racial motifs, such as the song “Kill the Burss”, replied Grov.
Grok did the same in response to hundreds of other x, including one of The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV. In response to the question What was on chatbot Mind, and she replied that “reflection on the song” Kill the Bur “. After Wired I pressed other usersGROK began vocation White genocide in South Africa “overthrown theory of conspiracy” contrary to its previous response to this topic.
It is not clear, which caused Grok to experience a problem. X and XAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Wired. Musk, who came from South Africa, has described Internal factions in the government of South Africa as “actively promoting white genocide.” He continued that his internet company, Starlink, could not operate in South Africa “simply because I’m not black.”
US President Donald Trump expressed similar views in February. “The Republic of South Africa confoses the earth and treats some classes of people very badly”, he he said in the post About social truth. Musk played a central role in the novel Trump administration, including managing his so -called government department.
In recent weeks, Trump doubled his concern for the white South Africa. On Monday, a group of 59 inhabitants of South Africa, who received refugee status to Washington during a flight paid by the US government while stopping refugee status for people escaping from any other country.
However, in the decision in 2025, the Supreme Court in South Africa called this narrative “clearly imagined,“Stating that agricultural attacks are part of general crime affecting all breeds, not a racial direction.