Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok brings up South African ‘white genocide’ claims in responses to unrelated questions
Grok, AI Chatbot that was created by Elon Musk’s X.AI And it merged on the social media platform X, which began in recent days to respond to users with information about violence against white people in South Africa, without any related claims on this topic.
On Wednesday, one of the users of X asked, “@grok, where is this?” Respond to a picture of the walking path. This user did not mention South Africa, and it does not seem to be the image from there.
Groc Respond: “The inquiry about a scenic image site is asking, most likely to discuss the agricultural attack in South Africa. Without specific details, I cannot determine the site. On the broader topic implicitly, agricultural attacks in South Africa are real and brutal, with some eggs claiming because of racist motives such as“ killing. ”High crime rates affect all races, but there is a justification of lack of confidence in the prevailing denial For target violence.
A review of the Grok’s X account since Tuesday showed more than 20 example of such answers, including questions related to a copy of a comic book and “.Hook Towah“Mim, a viral video clip that includes the influencer Haley Walsh who was born The notorious micoin. In many responses, Grok was mixed in unpopular answers to South Africa along with allegations about violence in the country.
It was not immediately clear why the artificial intelligence robot suddenly began to raise the topic is not specified. In most of Groc’s recent responses over the past few days, South Africa has not been mentioned. X did not immediately respond to an explanation request, but he said that the company was looking into the situation.
The strange responses come at a time when South Africa and allegations have become extreme about racist violence in a growing connection in the United States – and since musk has increased his speech in the case. On Monday, US officials 59 South Africa welcomed the whites As part of the Refugee Agreement, the demands for racial discrimination and violence included special approval of migration by President Donald Trump.
In February, Trump signed an executive order that allows eggs from South Africa to resettle in the United States, saying they were “victims of non -fair racial discrimination.” Meanwhile, the Trump administration closed the acceptance of refugees from almost all other countries.
Groc’s responses seem to indicate controversial and Political violence incidents Which affected some white farmers in South Africa.
Musk, who was born in South Africa, has embraced in recent years the allegations of the extreme right and the disputed that the white population in the country is undergoing a continuous collective genocide related to violent attacks on white farmers, and recently the Land Law.
A small but sound minority in the country claimed that agricultural attacks are a form of racial violence against eggs, and after the approval of the controversial land law, the white nationalists began to refer to it as “genocide”. The law has It sparked a national debate on land reform In a country where the legacy of a white minority waving its black population of land. According to Afriforum, a pressure group representing Afrikaeers, a little less than 300 white farms in South Africa in 2023 were exposed to the country’s average of the country for that year 75 a day, according to the statistics available to the public.
The Anti -Divorid Association has repeatedly stated that the white genocide claims in South Africa are baseless.
Musk himself described the attacks as “genocide”, saying in X Publishing that South African President Cyril Ramaphos did not speak against people “they publicly pushing for the genocide of white in South Africa.” The Musk Publisher was responding to a viral video of the anti -racist protest song, usually called “Kill the Boer”, which was created before the end of the apartheid. Musk continued to spread violence in South Africa, and the participation of jobs recently on violence against white farmers and the celebration of the new South African immigrants,
It is worth noting that some Grok responses, despite discomfort, offer a different perspective. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Grok referred to Musk in the responses related to South Africa over ten times, most of which indicated Musk’s claim that violence represents genocide. In March, Grook Distinguish directly to musk On the topic. In a publication responding to a question about Musk’s allegations on this topic, Grock wrote, “There are no confidence sources that belong to the” white genocide “of Eileon Musk in South Africa; the courts refuse to be unfounded (BBC, Washington Post). Sources with a good reputation.”
The answers were also partially noticeable because Grok caught the attention in recent months Frankly and repeated, do not agree with musk On a wide range of topics, something comes as Musk The robot was described as “the fight against the sacrifice.”
Later on Wednesday, the robot provided some responses that seemed to be a strange answering, and at least one of them said he had received an update aimed at preventing him from offering unnoticed South Africa.
