xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts ...

May 16 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's xAI responded to widespread reports that its Grok chatbot made claims about a genocide against white citizens in South Africa, saying there had been an unauthorized ...

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has missed a self-imposed deadline to publish a finalized AI safety framework, as noted by watchdog group The Midas Project. xAI isn’t exactly known for its strong ...

xAI has commented on the controversy around their AI chatbot Grok repeatedly addressing the claims about “white genocide” in South Africa unprompted in its responses. The Elon Musk-led AI firm ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. xAI has published the system prompts for its AI chatbot Grok after an “unauthorized” change led to a slew of unprompted responses on X about ...

On Friday evening, Elon Musk announced on his social media company X that xAI, his artificial intelligence startup, had bought X in an all-stock transaction. According to Musk, the deal values the ...

xAI is removing some gas turbines at its Memphis facility due to a new substation and Tesla Megapack batteries coming online. About half of the turbines will continue operating until a second ...

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. That prompt modification ...

xAI's Grok chatbot faced a controversy after unauthorized modifications to its system prompt led to racially sensitive responses, including references to "white genocide" in South Africa. The ...

“Our existing code review process for prompt changes was circumvented in this incident,” xAI said on its own platform. “We will put in place additional checks and measures to ensure that xAI ...

Some X users noticed that Grok brought up the topic of “white genocide” in unrelated discussions about other matters, sharing screenshots of their exchanges. Elon Musk's xAI responded to ...

xAI, which Musk founded in 2023, acquired X in March in an all-stock purchase. Tesla shares rose 0.5% but dipped in after-hours Tuesday, remaining around 10% down since January 2. Elon Musk said ...