Musk’s xAI Blames Rogue Tampering for ‘White Genocide’ Glitches

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok blamed unsanctioned changes to its system for responses this week that included controversial theories about “white genocide” in South Africa.

Musk’s xAI, the company behind Grok, has thoroughly investigated and reversed the “unauthorized modification” to its technology, which led to responses that “violated xAI’s internal policies and core values,” it said in a posting Thursday.

“Our existing code review process for prompt changes was circumvented in this incident,” xAI said on its own platform. “We will put in place additional checks and measures to ensure that xAI employees can’t modify the prompt ...