This is an archive article published on May 17, 2025

Musk’s xAI updates Grok chatbot after ‘white genocide’ comments

Issues of political biases, hate speech and accuracy of AI chatbots have been a concern since at least the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022.

Grok 4 has surpassed several top AI models in leading benchmarks. (Express Image)

2 min readMay 17, 2025 09:16 AM IST First published on: May 17, 2025 at 09:16 AM IST

Elon Musk’s xAI responded to widespread reports that its Grok chatbot made claims about a genocide against white citizens in South Africa, saying there had been an unauthorized change to the artificial intelligence bot. In a post on X on Thursday, xAI said it would update the system to address the problem.

Issues of political biases, hate speech and accuracy of AI chatbots have been a concern since at least the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022.

XAI said that early on Wednesday the unauthorized change was made to Grok’s response software, circumventing the normal review process.

“This change, which directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic, violated xAI’s internal policies and core values,” xAI said.