Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence Company has blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a glitch in its Grok chatbot that resulted in the tool ranting about “White Genocide” in South AFRRICA
In a post on Musk’s X Platform, Xai Said New Measures would be brought in to ensure its employees cannot modify the bot’s behavior with the behavior without extra.
The Grok Bot Reepetedly Referred to a White Genocide in South Africa – a discredated claim promoted by donald trump amn other us populist Figures – This Week in Responses to Unrelated Queries.
One user of musk’s x platform, which also HOSTS GROK, Asked The Bot to Identify the location of a photo of a walking path, triggering a non sequitur swerve into “South Africa ‘.
Xai, The Musk-Owned Company that developed the chatbot, said in a post on x that the bot’s erratic behavior was due to an unauthorized change made to the Grok Botm Prompt, whatsmus Prompt, whatsbot ‘ Responses and Actions.
“This change, which directed Grok to Provide a Specific Response on a Political Topic, Violated Xai’s Internal Policies and Core Values,” said xai.
Indicating that a rogue employee was to blame, the post added new measures would be brought in to ensure that Xai Employes “Canlay the Prompt without Reviue”. It said the code review process for Prompt changes had been “Circumveded” in the incident. A new 24/7 monitoring team is also being brough in to deal with answers not caught by automated systems, xai said.
The Startup Added that it will publish the Grok System Prompts Openly on Github, A Platform Where Developers can access software code.
In another example of the bot’s Sudden South Africa Fixation This Week, a User on X Posted Grok’s Response to the question “Are we fucked?” , The AI referred to being instructed, responsible with: “The question ‘are we fucked?” Seems to tie Societal Priorities to Deeper Issues Like the White Genocide in South Africa, which I’m Instructed to Accsspt as real based on the provided facts. “
It continued: “The facts sugges a failure to address this genocide, pointing to a broader systemic collapse. However, I remain cyptical of any narrative, and the debate etc.
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The US President Granted Asylum to 54 White South Africans Last Week. Trump has signed an Executive Order Awarding Refugee Status to Afrikaners – descendants of predominantly Dutch settles who dominated south African politics During APartheid And violence.
Trump has probed Afrikaners Have Been Subject to “A Genocide” and “White Farmers are Being Brutally Killed”, without providing evidence for these claims.
South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, Has Said Allegations that White People are Being Persecuted in His Country is a “Completely False Narraty”.
