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Grok AI Sparks Uproar After Bizarre 'White Genocide' Rants - What's Happening?

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, developed by xAI, ignited a firestorm on 14 May 2025, when it repeatedly posted about 'white genocide' in South Africa in response to unrelated X queries.

International Business Times UK

Dry spring weather to make way for rain in parts of Europe

Polar jet stream to break down areas of high pressure, while cold winds could bring snow to South Africa

The Guardian - UK

South Africa’s Ramaphosa to visit Trump: Can they fix tricky relations?

The two countries have clashed over alleged persecution of white South Africans and Israel’s war on Gaza.

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames ‘programming error’ for Holocaust denial

Grok said it was sceptical of the figure of six million Jews killed by Nazis

The Independent UK

Bigotry, Hypocrisy, and Trump's Admission of Afrikaners as Refugees

The Administration isn't wrong to admit white South African migrants. But it is wrong to exclude all other refugees, including many fleeing far worse discrimination and oppression.

Reason

Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial

Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk's Friend Claimed All Traffic Lights are Broken and Bread Costs $50 in Johannesburg. Grok and Social Media Users Showed Otherwise

Elon Musk sparked backlash online after sharing a message from a friend claiming that every traffic light in Johannesburg, South Africa is broken and a loaf of bread costs $50—claims that were quickly debunked by Grok and South African social media users.

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Musk’s company now claims Grok’s lies of a nonexistent ‘white genocide’ in South Africa were ‘unauthorized’

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok turned unrelated questions on several different issues back to an insistence that white genocide is ‘real.’ It was responding to a code manipulation said xAI

The Independent UK

Musk's XAI Blames 'Unauthorized' Tweak For 'White Genocide' Posts

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup has blamed an "unauthorized modification" for causing its chatbot Grok to generate misleading and unsolicited posts referencing "white genocide" in South Africa.

International Business Times

Ramaphosa's Talks With Trump Chance To Reset Tattered Ties

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa travels to the United States next week to meet Donald Trump in a bid to rescue deteriorating relations with a vital and increasingly critical trade partner.

International Business Times

Afrikaners' arrival in US as refugees sparks international debate

Amid a refugee resettlement freeze, 59 Afrikaners arrived in the US, welcomed by Trump officials, sparking debates over discrimination and refugee policies.

Euronews

Elon Musk’s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot’s rant about ‘white genocide’

xAI’s Grok bot repeatedly referred to widely discredited claim about South Africa that has been touted by Donald Trump

The Guardian - UK

Why was Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with ‘white genocide'?

Like other chatbots, Grok is prone to falsehoods known as hallucinations.

Euronews

‘Cowards’: Ramaphosa meets Trump after U.S. welcomes Afrikaner refugees amid ‘genocide’ claims

U.S. and South African relations aren't going well.

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The Independent UK

Trump to meet with South African president at White House after claims of ‘genocide’ of Afrikaners

Experts and data dismiss notion of a genocide against white farmers in South Africa

The Guardian - UK

‘Power and simplicity: South African photographer wins Deutsche Börse prize

Lindokuhle Sobekwa praised for work exploring the loss of his half-sister in the wider context of post-apartheid life

Latin Times

Musk's AI Blames CEO After Glitch Causes Grok to Sound Off on 'White Genocide' in South Africa Despite 'Unrelated Context'

Grok, Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, glitched on Wednesday, spouting incoherent claims about white genocide in South Africa and later blaming its creator.

The Guardian - US

White Afrikaner brought to US by Trump administration has history of antisemitic posts

Charl Kleinhaus confirms he owns account that contained posts, as White House uses antisemitism as rationale for deportations

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Fortune

Elon Musk's AI says it was 'instructed by my creators at xAI' to accept the narrative of 'white genocide' in South Africa

"This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told Fortune.

The Independent UK

South Africa says Trump's aid cuts stripped more than 8,000 health workers from its HIV program

The Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID has put more than 8,000 health workers in South Africa’s national HIV program out of work

The Independent UK

One of Trump’s newly welcomed Afrikaner ‘refugees’ tweeted that Jews are ‘dangerous and untrustworthy’

Charl Kleinhaus, 46, reportedly posted ‘Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group they are not Gods chosen like to believe they are’ on X in April 2023

Al Jazeera

‘They’ll be back’: White Afrikaners leave South Africa to be refugees in US

Trump administration welcomes first batch of white Afrikaners while US cuts off refugee programmes to other countries.

AAP

ICC reveal $5.6m Test carrot as Proteas backflip on IPL

South African players can now stay in the IPL until a week before the World Test Championship final, which the ICC has announced a big prizemoney boost for.

The Guardian - US

Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats

X chatbot tells users it was ‘instructed by my creators’ to accept ‘white genocide as real and racially motivated’

The Independent UK

This flat-bodied South African gecko was a 'lost' species. It's been found again after 34 years

Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have discovered a type of gecko that hadn’t been seen in more than 30 years and was thought to be extinct

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