The Grok 'White Genocide' Incident Shows How AI Can Become a Propaganda Machine

When Musk's chatbot started injecting "white genocide" conspiracy theories into unrelated conversations, it revealed the dangerous power of AI to reshape reality.

May 15, 2025

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Something very weird happened yesterday with Elon Musk's xAI chatbot Grok — and if you're at all concerned about the future of AI, it should have you deeply worried.

For several hours on Wednesday, Grok started injecting references to "white genocide" in South Africa into completely unrelated conversations across X. When a baseball podcast asked about Or…

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