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CNN3d
Grok’s ‘white genocide’ meltdown nods to the real dangers of the AI arms race
Take Grok, the xAI model that is becoming almost as conspiracy-theory-addled as its creator, Elon Musk. The bot last week devolved into a compulsive South African “white genocide” conspiracy ...
The Verge4d
Microsoft is now hosting xAI’s Grok 3 models
I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft was getting ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI models, and now it’s official. At Microsoft’s Build developer conference ...
TechCrunch4d
xAI’s Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft’s ...
Business Insider9d
We asked Grok why it was bringing up 'white genocide' in unrelated X posts. The AI's answers are messy.
X users were getting responses from Grok about "white genocide" under unrelated posts on Wednesday. We asked Grok to explain why it was doing that. Grok first said its creators told it to do so ...
Lifehacker9d
Why Did X’s Grok AI Keep Talking About ‘White Genocide’?
Update 4/16/2025: Last night, xAI, the makers of Grok, issued a statement about the artificial intelligence's temporary focus on "white genocide" in answers to unrelated questions. According to ...
THE WEEK5d
What Elon Musk's Grok AI controversy reveals about chatbots
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has come under fire for repeatedly spreading far-right conspiracy theories about South Africa and expressing skepticism about facts regarding the ...
Rolling Stone8d
Grok Pivots From ‘White Genocide’ to Being ‘Skeptical’ About the Holocaust
Elon Musk‘s company xAI has now addressed recent strange behavior from its Grok chatbot, claiming that an “unauthorized modification” caused it to bring up the myth of “white genocide ...
Business Insider13d
Grok picked Musk over Altman to save humanity. We asked the other AIs to weigh in.
Sam Altman asked Grok if he or Elon Musk should advance AI if the fate of humanity was at stake. We asked the same question to ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot, Gemini, Meta AI, and Perplexity.