EPISODE · May 15, 2025 · 18 MIN
Grok Gone Rogue: Musk’s AI Chatbot Fixates on South Africa in Bizarre Replies
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Hey Strangers, #gronk #elon #southafrica A chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch Wednesday when it repeatedly brought up white genocide in South Africa in response to user queries about unrelated topics on X. Grok, which competes with other chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is directly integrated into the social media platform that Musk also owns.=======================================My other podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw**************************************************Something Strangehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s**************************************************article links:https://www.wired.com/story/grok-white-genocide-elon-musk/?_sp=4e81336f-4d3c-41c5-9f58-3b126255b54d.1747276564187https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395067/first-group-afrikaner-refugees-arrive#:~:text=White%20South%20African%20Afrikaner%20refugees,on%20a%20government%2Dchartered%20plane&text=JOHANNESBURG%2C%20South%20Africa%20%E2%80%94%20A%20group,for%20by%20the%20U.S.%20government.https://www.instagram.com/ken__shedrach_jolly/reel/DGKpvENv6jV/?locale=pt_BR&hl=ar======================================Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discordhttps://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxqTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoderYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ?sub_confirmation=1Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangersTwitterhttps://twitter.com/strangestcodermerchSupport CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merchGithubFollow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangersTipshttps://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tipPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheStrangersWebullhttps://act.webull.com/vi/c8V9LvpDDs6J/uyq/inviteUs/Join this channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ/joinTimeline00:00 intro00:26 What Talking We Talking About02:34 Article14:14 My Thoughts17:01 outro Anything else?Take Care--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
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Hey Strangers, #gronk #elon #southafrica A chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch Wednesday when it repeatedly brought up white genocide in South Africa in response to user queries about unrelated topics on X. Grok, which competes with other chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is directly integrated into the social media platform that Musk also owns.=======================================My other podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw**************************************************Something Strangehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s**************************************************article links:https://www.wired.com/story/grok-white-genocide-elon-musk/?_sp=4e81336f-4d3c-41c5-9f58-3b126255b54d.1747276564187https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395067/first-group-afrikaner-refugees-arrive#:~:text=White%20South%20African%20Afrikaner%20refugees,on%20a%20government%2Dchartered%20plane&text=JOHANNESBURG%2C%20South%20Africa%20%E2%80%94%20A%20group,for%20by%20the%20U.S.%20government.https://www.instagram.com/ken__shedrach_jolly/reel/DGKpvENv6jV/?locale=pt_BR&hl=ar======================================Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discordhttps://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxqTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoderYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ?sub_confirmation=1Twitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangersTwitterhttps://twitter.com/strangestcodermerchSupport CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merchGithubFollow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangersTipshttps://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tipPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheStrangersWebullhttps://act.webull.com/vi/c8V9LvpDDs6J/uyq/inviteUs/Join this channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9xwdRW2D7RYwlp6pRGOvQ/joinTimeline00:00 intro00:26 What Talking We Talking About02:34 Article14:14 My Thoughts17:01 outro Anything else?Take Care--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
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