Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company Elon Musk blames the "unauthorized modification" of its glitches in its Grok chatbot, leading to the tool in South Africa's tool about "white genocide".
XAI said in an article on the Musk X platform that new measures will be taken to ensure that its employees cannot modify the robot's behavior without additional supervision.
The robot’s robot repeatedly mentions the white genocide in South Africa, a reputable claim that Donald Trump has put forward among other populist figures in the United States – a response to irrelevant inquiries this week.
A user of Musk X platform also hosted Grok, asking the robot to determine the location of the walking path photos and trigger a non-sequitur swerve to enter the "farm attack debate in South Africa."
Xai, a company owned by Musk, which develops the chatbot, said in an article on X that the bot's behavior was caused by unauthorized changes to Grok Bot's system prompts, which guided the chatbot's response and action.
"This change indicates that Grok provides a specific response to political topics, which violates Xai's internal policies and core values," Xai said.
The post will propose new measures to ensure that XAI employees “cannot modify the prompt without review.” It said that the timely changes in the event code review process has been "avoided". Xai said a new 24/7 monitoring team will also be introduced to handle answers that were not caught by the automation system.
The startup added that it will publicly release Grok system prompts on Github, a platform where developers can access software code.
The U.S. president granted asylum to 54 South Africans last week. Trump has signed an executive order to South Africa's Dutch, mainly descendants of Dutch settlers, who ruled South African politics during apartheid — saying they face racial discrimination and violence.
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After that, Trump said that the Dutch were bound by “genocide” and that “white farmers were brutally killed” without providing evidence of these claims.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said the persecution of his country was an allegation of "completely wrong narrative".