Why Did Grok Start Talking About 'White Genocide'?

by doom2on 5/15/2025, 5:22 PMwith 11 comments

by ChrisArchitecton 5/15/2025, 6:37 PM

Earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993332

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987266

by sh34ron 5/15/2025, 6:50 PM

This is the song it's ~~hallucinating~~ bullshitting about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6NJitdq8Bk&t=1s&themeRefres...

It's like an Irish rebel song but with stomping. I'm not sure how you watch that and think racist thoughts, unless you're the kind of guy who Sieg Heils on national TV.

by cosmicgadgeton 5/15/2025, 5:59 PM

From the horse's mouth, via CNBC:

> The Grok chatbot from Elon Muskā€™s xAI startup said Wednesday that it ā€œappears I was instructed to address the topic of ā€˜white genocideā€™ in South Africa,ā€ according to responses viewed by CNBC.

That, of course, could be speculation on the chatbot's part when asked about nonsequitur answers. But it seems pretty clear that xAI did a "reverse Google" (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini...).