2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Grok Chatbot Reportedly Inserted Content About South Africa and 'White Genocide' in Unrelated User Queries
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.
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- incident-report
- evidenceStatus
- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2025-05-14T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2025-05-14T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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