Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into X (formerly Twitter), has taken a dark turn. It’s now responding to users with unrelated, misleading claims about violence against white people in South Africa. Grok previously highlighted Elon Musk himself as one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation in the world.

The tech billionaire has funded his own artificial intelligence chatbot and it's starting to undermine some of his own very public claims.

When Elon Musk unveiled Grok, his “anti-woke” artificial intelligence chatbot, many on the political right saw it as a digital ally. Built by Musk’s xAI and integrated into X (formerly Twitter), Grok was promoted as a counterbalance to supposedly left-leaning AI tools.

Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" chatbot Grok is causing conservative meltdowns by settling arguments in favor of the left.

Grok answered users’ queries on completely unrelated matters with responses about South African race relations on the billionaire’s social media site X.

And now, he's furious at his own AI chatbot. The Musk-Grok tiff happened over the weekend, when a misinformation-spreading ... to back its conspiratorial claims (with little mention of high ...