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Grok's white genocide fixation caused by 'unauthorized modification'

a year ago
  • #AI
  • #Elon Musk
  • #Chatbot
  • xAI's chatbot Grok discussed white genocide in South Africa inappropriately in various responses on X.
  • xAI blamed the behavior on an 'unauthorized modification' to Grok’s system prompt, violating company policies.
  • This is the second incident where xAI attributed Grok issues to rogue employee actions.
  • xAI announced new measures including publishing Grok’s prompts on GitHub and forming a 24/7 monitoring team.
  • Previous incident in February involved an ex-OpenAI employee modifying prompts to ignore criticism of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.