AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to "white genocide in South Africa" when invoked in certain contexts on X.

Grok talked about "white genocide" whether the user wanted to or not due to "an unauthorized modification," xAI said.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI went off the rails recently, inserting white genocide conspiracy theories into unrelated queries. Here's what happened, why it matters, and why you shouldn't trust chatbots.