Several X users were shocked yesterday when they found that asking Grok — X's AI chatbot — innocuous questions about Fortnite, HBO, and the WWE seemingly caused the bot to go off on an unrelated tangent about South Africa and "white genocide."

The artificial intelligence model had bizarrely mentioned the subject in answers to unrelated user queries about HBO’s name change, a baseball player’s salary, Pope Leo XIV and WWE

Grok previously highlighted Elon Musk himself as one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation in the world. The AI would constantly shoot down conspiracy theories propagated by Musk (including the “white genocide” one).

Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot on X stunned users by responding to unrelated questions with racially charged commentary about South Africa, highlighting ongoing concerns about bias, reliability, and hallucinations in generative AI tools.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked Grok on Friday if he or Elon Musk should advance AI. We asked 6 other popular chatbots to chime in.