Grok goes full racist
2025-05-16 17:07:07.240274+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
You probably read about the whole Twitter pushing South African whiteness thing, but just to make note of it: xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’.
On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South Africa, even in response to unrelated subjects. The strange replies stemmed from the X account for Grok, which responds to users with AI-generated posts whenever a person tags “@grok.”
"Someone" fucked up the system prompt. Which, of course reveals how much might be hiding in the system prompt generally.
Via.
Of course the story is changing and evolving: Musk ("xAI") now claims grok was hacked based on this repost of an xAI statement.