Why was Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with South Africa's racial politics?
Much like its creator, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on social media this week, posting unsolicited claims about the persecution and 'genocide' of white people.
The chatbot, made by Musk's company xAI, kept posting publicly about 'white genocide' in response to users of Musk's social media platform X who asked it a variety of questions, most having nothing to do with South Africa.
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