Elon Musk’s xAI updates Grok chatbot after ‘white genocide’ comments

Elon Musk’s xAI responded to widespread reports that its Grok chatbot made claims about a genocide against white citizens in South Africa, saying there had been an unauthorised change to the artificial intelligence bot. In a post on X on Thursday, xAI said it would update the system to address the problem.

Issues of political biases, hate speech and accuracy of AI chatbots have been a concern since at least the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022.

xAI said that early on Wednesday the unauthorised change was made to Grok’s response software,…