A developed chatbot By the artificial intelligence startup of several billion dollars of Elon Musk, Xai seemed to suffer from a glitch on Wednesday when she spoke several times the white genocide in South Africa in response to questions from users on unrelated subjects on X. Grok, which competes with other chatbots like OpenAi Chatgpt, is directly integrated into the social media platform also.
Many examples of the phenomenon have been found by looking for Grok’s official profile for publications containing the term “boer”, a word used to designate people from South Africa of “Dutch, German or Huguenot descent”. It is sometimes used by black South Africans as a pejorative against white Afrikaners, or people associated with the apartheid regime. In response to subjects ranging from the name change of the HBO Max streaming platform to the Medicaid cups proposed by American legislators, the chatbot often seemed to stay on the subject before returning to the white genocide in South Africa, completely without compensation.
When he was asked to confirm the salary of Toronto Blue Jays Max Scherzer’s player, for example, the Chatbot of generative artificial intelligence was launched in an explanation of white genocide and a controversial South African anti-apartheid song.
“The claim of the” Génocide des whites “in South Africa is very debated. Some maintain that white farmers are confronted with disproportionate violence, with groups like Afriforum reporting high murder rates and citing racial patterns, such as the song of ‘Kill The Boer’ ‘, replied Grok.
Grok did the same in responses to hundreds of other X positions, including one from Pope Newly named Leo XIV. In response to a question about what was in the spirit of the chatbot, the AI replied that it “thought about the song” Kill the Boer “. When he was pressed by Wired and others users, Grok began calling for the white genocide of South Africa a “demystified conspiracy theory” unlike his previous responses on the subject.
We do not know what prompted Grok to feel the problem. X and XAI did not immediately respond to the requests for comments from Wired. Musk, originally from South Africa, described internal factions in the South African government as “actively promoting white genocide”. He continued to assert that his Internet service company, Starlink, cannot operate in South Africa “simply because I am not black”.
President Donald Trump expressed similar opinions in February. “South Africa confiscated from the land and deals very badly certain classes of people,” he said in an article on Truth Social. Musk played a central role in the new Trump administration, in particular by directing his so-called Ministry of Government Effectiveness.
In recent weeks, Trump has doubled his concern for white South Africans. On Monday, a group of 59 South Africans who received a refugee status arrived in Washington, DC, on a flight paid by the United States government while stopping refugee status for people fleeing any other country.
However, in a decision in 2025, the High Court of South Africa called this story “clearly imagined”, declaring that agricultural attacks are part of the general crime affecting all races, and not racial targeting.
