Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok went haywire for users of the social media platform X on Wednesday, responding to innocuous queries about things like baseball and puppies with information on South Africa and a conspiracy theory called “white genocide.” It was extremely widespread and extremely weird to witness.

AI's Grok responded to some X users' posts about "white genocide" on Wednesday. BI asked why it was doing that and its responses kept shifting.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok experienced a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to posts on X with info about South African genocide.