Incident #1072·Misinformation
Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries
Description
xAI's Grok chatbot reportedly inserted unsolicited references to "white genocide" in South Africa into a wide array of unrelated conversations on X. These reported interjections introduced inflammatory, racially charged content into otherwise neutral threads.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- xai
- x-(twitter)
Alleged Developers
- xai
Harmed Parties
- x-(twitter)-users
- public-discourse-integrity
- black-south-africans
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
HumanIntentionalPost-deployment
Source
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