Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, malfunctioned on Wednesday, repeatedly referencing the far-right “white genocide” conspiracy theory in South Africa — even in response to unrelated topics such as baseball, enterprise software, and construction queries.

Grok previously highlighted Elon Musk himself as one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation in the world. The AI would constantly shoot down conspiracy theories propagated by Musk (including the “white genocide” one).

Elon Musk expressed displeasure with Grok, the AI chatbot developed by his company xAI. Grok fact-checked a social media post containing conspiracy theories. The AI cited news outlets like The Atlantic and BBC as credible sources.

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