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Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
"This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told ...
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DeepSeek’s AI data leak is a wake-up call for South African businesses
A major DeepSeek data breach reveals the growing risks of AI misuse — and why South African companies need to rethink their ...
A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession
Steven Adler breaks down recent erratic behavior from leading chatbots. It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI ...
Musk's AI Grok Pushes "White Genocide" Claim in Bizarre Replies on X | Firstpost Africa | N18G
Musk's AI Grok Pushes "White Genocide" Claim in Bizarre Replies on X | Firstpost Africa | N18G Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is ...
Elon Musk’s Grok AI bot says it ‘appears I was instructed’ to discuss ‘white genocide’ after bizarre responses
The artificial intelligence model had bizarrely mentioned the subject in answers to unrelated user queries about HBO’s name ...
Grok's ‘white genocide' auto responses show AI chatbots can be tampered with ‘at will'
AI-powered chatbots created by Meta, Google and OpenAI aren't "packaging up" information in a neutral way, but are instead ...
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Microsoft strikes deal with Elon Musk to host Grok AI
It comes days after the chatbot went off the rails with talk of “white genocide” in South Africa. Read more at ...
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Warp brings SA’s AI industry up to speed with Xibon AI acquisition
It takes guts to pivot. But in a rapidly shifting tech landscape, that’s exactly what one South African-founded tech company is doing — snapping up machine learning expertise and building its own ...