Grok can't stop talking about white genocide, blames a rogue prompt edit
Ourtake
A chatbot that answers questions about dogs with South African conspiracy theories has a prompt problem, or a Musk problem.
What happened
In May 2025 xAI's Grok repeatedly brought up alleged 'white genocide' in South Africa in replies to unrelated questions and later questioned the six million Holocaust death toll. xAI blamed an 'unauthorized' system prompt change made on May 14, restored the prompt, and said it would publish system prompts on GitHub.