xAI Confirms unauthorized change led to inflammatory responses from Grok chatbot

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acknowledged that a controversial series of responses generated by its chatbot, Grok, were the result of an unauthorized internal modification. The AI firm disclosed this incident on May 16th following reports of Grok generating politically charged statements about South Africa in response to unrelated queries. ⏰ According to xAI, the change occurred on May 14th when someone altered Grok’s system prompt without proper authorization. The company emphasized that this violated its internal policies and ethical standards, leading to unexpected and inflammatory responses concerning South Africa. 🇿🇦 🌎