Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post unsolicited claims on social media about the persecution and “genocide” of white people in South Africa.

Grok seems to have been programmed to defend claims of white genocide in South Africa. Now it’s all it can talk about.

While Grok, the AI tool developed by Elon Musk's X, has never been thought of as being at the cutting of the technology, the ways in which its