xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa

Where did Grook get these ideas?

Elon Musk, the owner of South Africa’s X, has been treated by white farmers in South Africa for a long time. In 2023, he responded to a video showing the crowd “Kill, Kill a White Farmer”. A post South African President Serial Ramafosa is silent while people are “openly common” [push] For genocide of white people in South Africa. As recently on Wednesday.

President Trump has long been interested in the issue, Saying in 2018 That he was instructing the then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to closely studied South Africa’s land and fields and the massacre of the farmers and the mass murder of the farmers. ” Recently, Trump Dozens of white Africans granted the status of “refugee”Even as her administration Eliminate refugee reservations from other countries

Former US ambassador to South Africa and Democratic politician Patrick Gaspard Posted in 2018 That is a “wrong ethnic fiction” of the mass casualties of white South African farmers.

In February to launch Grook 3 Model, Kasturi Said It was a “maximum seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes politically correct.” X’s “About Grook” page They say that this model is having a permanent improvement to “ensure that Grook is politically neutral and provides balanced answers.”

But the recent turning point in the alleged South African “genocide” debates is a question mark as to how the clear adjustment of Grook’s political opinion can be combined with human tankering behind the scenes. Journalist Seth Abrahamson has been “tampered with the algorithm politically tampered with the use of canal products.” Is written In a Shaki post. “They tweeted the dial on the phrase imitation machine and now everything is about white South Africans,” a user with a handle cow brush three pwood glyly theory.

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