Grok seems to have been programmed to defend claims of white genocide in South Africa. Now, it’s all it can talk about.

Some X users on Wednesday asked Grok – the AI chatbot available through Elon Musk’s social media platform – questions about simple topics like baseball players or videos of fish being flushed down toilets.

Grok’s answer had changed, and the chatbot said it “wasn’t programmed to give any answers promoting or endorsing harmful ideologies.”