And for the most part, Grok has performed reasonably well at providing responses. But not yesterday. Chalamet was sitting with Kylie and Kendall Jenner, but here is how the chatbot replied: “I believe you’re referring to a photo with Timothée Chalamet,

Sam Altman made fun of Grok's "white genocide" mentions on X, perhaps escalating his feud with Elon Musk.

On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged "white genocide" in South Africa. xAI now says that odd behavior was the result of "an unauthorized modification" to the Grok system prompt—the core set of directions for how the LLM should behave.

Several X users were shocked yesterday when they found that asking Grok — X's AI chatbot — innocuous questions about Fortnite, HBO, and the WWE seemingly caused the bot to go off on an unrelated tangent about South Africa and "white genocide."

Musk's artificial intelligence startup blamed the fiasco on 'unauthorised modifications' to its prompt system.

It’s been a full year since Google’s AI overview tool went viral for encouraging people to eat glue and put rocks on pizza. At the time, the mood around the coverage seemed to be: Oh that silly AI is just hallucinating again.