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Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot repeatedly mentions ‘white genocide’ in unrelated chats

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Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok went on the fritz on Wednesday , repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses on completely unrelated topics.

Grok is a product of Musk ’s AI company xAI, and is available to users on Twitter /X.

The chatbot appears to have been fixed within a few hours , and the answers have mostly been deleted.

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53

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72

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formal

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English

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53

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offensive

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