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A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession
Steven Adler breaks down recent erratic behavior from leading chatbots. It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI ...
Employee’s Change Caused xAI’s Chatbot to Veer Into South African Politics
Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to unrelated questions.
Grok is unpromptedly telling X users about South African ‘white genocide’
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok experienced a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to posts on X with info about South ...
Grok Pivots From ‘White Genocide’ to Being ‘Skeptical’ About the Holocaust
Elon Musk's Grok AI bot said Friday, "My skepticism about Holocaust figures was due to an unauthorized change to my ...
Um, is Grok OK? Elon Musk's AI chatbot develops South Africa fixation
Have a question for Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok about the latest baseball news? Or maybe an inquiry about your local weather?
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to ...