Elon Musk’s xAI has blamed its Grok chatbot’s recent habit of randomly posting about “white genocide” in South Africa on a rogue employee who made an “unauthorized modification” to its system prompt.
At about 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday, a change was made to the bot’s prompt, the high-level system instructions that guide its behavior, directing it to “provide a specific response on a political topic,” the company wrote in a social media post on X.
The post didn’t specify what the political topic was, or who made the change or why. The Daily Beast has reached out to xAI for comment.
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