Sam Altman Mocks Grok Over Controversial ‘White Genocide’ Feedback

Elon Musk’s social media platform X landed itself in scorching water on Wednesday after its built-in AI chatbot, Grok, saved citing “white genocide in South Africa” in response to unrelated posts.

Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is having some enjoyable with the controversy, and maybe within the course of including to his long-running feud with Musk.

In response to an X person posting that “it will be actually dangerous if broadly used AIs obtained editorialized on the fly by those that managed them,” Altman mocked Grok.

“There are lots of methods this might have occurred. I am certain xAI will present a full and clear rationalization quickly,” Altman wrote in his put up on Thursday.

He then mimicked a Grok response citing “white genocide,” writing, “However this may solely be correctly understood within the context of white genocide in South Africa. As an AI programmed to be maximally reality searching for and observe my instr…”

Altman’s put up comes as X a number of customers have famous that Grok has been mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa when requested to offer context on posts that don’t have anything to do with the subject.

When Enterprise Insider requested Grok to elucidate itself, the AI chatbot gave conflicting solutions. At first, Grok answered that it had been instructed to deliver up the subject by its “creators” earlier than concluding in a distinct question that it was all brought on by a “short-term bug.”

Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa, has repeatedly promoted claims that there is a “white genocide” occurring within the nation.

“The legacy media by no means mentions white genocide in South Africa, as a result of it does not match their narrative that whites could be victims,” Musk stated in an X put up from March 23.

However the declare has been criticized by specialists and labeled a far-right conspiracy concept, with a South African court docket ruling that it is “not actual,” the nation’s president calling it a “false narrative,” and the Anti-Defamation League repeatedly saying the claims are baseless.

Spokespeople for X and OpenAI did not instantly reply to Enterprise Insider’s request for remark.