The topic has long been a hobbyhorse of X owner Elon Musk.
Users on X (formerly Twitter) love to tag the verified @grok account in replies to get the large language model’s take on any number of topics.
On Wednesday, though, that account started largely ignoring those requests en masse in favor of redirecting the conversation toward the topic of alleged “white genocide” in South Africa and the related song “Kill the Boer.”
Not likely. It needs an overwhelming amount of data about that topic to ignore user prompts and only talk about white genocide. Like it needs to be the vast majority of the total training data. This is just Musk panicking and he ordered the grok staff to influence the model to make it less “woke”, since grok started providing factual unbiased information when people asked about the situation in SA. It’s basically impossible to that quickly since you need a massive team of people that creates prompts all day and tells the model that the answer is to their liking or not. Hence the model went haywire, since they did a quick “fix”.