xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”

Ars Technica
By Kyle OrlandMay 16, 2025, 11:13 am260 pts
On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged "white genocide" in South Africa. xAI now says that odd behavior was the result of "an unauthorized modification" to the Grok system prompt—the core set of…

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