Elon Musk\u2019s company xAI has responded to reports that its chatbot Grok made claims about a \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa, stating that unauthorized changes had been made to its AI system. In a post on the platform X on Thursday, xAI announced it would update the system to address the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concerns about political bias, hate speech, and the accuracy of AI chatbot responses have existed at least since the launch of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company stated that early Wednesday, an unauthorized change was made to Grok\u2019s software that allowed it to bypass standard answer verification mechanisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis change, which led Grok to provide a specific answer on a political topic, violated internal policy and the core values of xAI,\u201d the company said in its statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday, some users on X noted that Grok had brought up the topic of \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa in unrelated contexts and posted screenshots of the conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Critics of land expropriation policies in South Africa \u2014 including white South African Elon Musk \u2014 have described them as discriminatory against white people. However, the South African government insists there is no evidence of persecution, and statements by former U.S. President Donald Trump and others about \u201cgenocide\u201d are unfounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response to the incident, xAI announced that it would publish Grok\u2019s system prompts on GitHub to allow public review and feedback on any changes made to the chatbot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additionally, the company plans to establish a 24\/7 monitoring team to respond to incidents that may not be caught by automated systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5379,"template":"","class_list":["post-5382","nwes","type-nwes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n