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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.

[ related topics: Heinlein Artificial Intelligence Race ]

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