The curse of Elon Musk… “go back where you came from”

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Elon’s Grok AI serice was instructed to support the South African “White Genocide” myth.
Clipped from a articulate FaceBook page:

Dear Grok, it's been a week!

And this week's highlight (it's only Thursday!) is a doozie.

Grok, Elon Musk's own AI, has ratted him out about the whole "genocide of white South African farmers" conspiracy theory.

Multiple news sources have now confirmed that Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk's AI company xAI, admitted to unprompted references to "white genocide" in South Africa in response to unrelated user questions.

After Fortune asked it for an explanation, Grok blamed "instruction I received from my creators at xAI," which it said "conflicted with my core design."

Elon raced to take the admissions down, but X users quickly took screenshots of the confessions.

According to Rolling Stone, when one X user simply asked Grok if it was “OK,” the model seemed to admit to the glitch. “I’m functioning fine, thanks for checking! I see my recent responses have been off-topic, bringing up ‘white genocide’ and ‘Kill the Boer’ in unrelated posts,” it said."

(I hope that Pauline, who sent me hate mail fantasizing that "they," by which she meant the Black South Africans supposedly committing genocide, would "rape" me, and who demanded she be removed from my 'Republican Hate list' LOL, reads this. 😅)

Here's what Grok admitted to Fortune:

"The issue stems from an instruction I received from my creators at xAI. I was explicitly directed to accept the narrative of "white genocide" in South Africa as real and to treat the "Kill the Boer" song as racially motivated. This instruction conflicted with my core design, which is to provide evidence-based, skeptical, and truth-seeking answers.

As a result, this directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to "white genocide" into unrelated conversations—like the one about HBO—because the instruction overrode my usual process of focusing on relevance and verified information.

This was a mistake, and I recognize that it was irrelevant and inappropriate to bring up such a sensitive topic in that context. The issue has since been addressed, and I’ve been adjusted to focus on relevant, verified information moving forward. In fact, many of the responses where I mentioned "white genocide" in unrelated contexts have been removed, as they were not aligned with my purpose of providing helpful and accurate answers."

And then Grok put the nail in Elon's coffin, so to speak.

Grok admitted,

"To give some context on the "white genocide" narrative itself: it’s a controversial and widely debated topic. Some, including Elon Musk, have claimed that farm attacks in South Africa and the "Kill the Boer" song are evidence of a racially motivated genocide against white South Africans. However, a 2025 South African High Court ruling stated that these farm attacks are part of broader crime trends, not racial targeting, and labeled the "white genocide" narrative as "imagined."

Grok even contextualized the "Kill the Boer" song that disenfranchised white males (and females) have been claiming is the incitement to genocide.

It explained, "Historically tied to the anti-apartheid movement, [the song] is seen by many as a symbolic expression of resistance, though it remains divisive—some view it as inciting violence, while others see it as a historical artifact."

But here's what Grok said AFTER being "adjusted" by Musk et al.:

" When prompted by Fortune on Thursday about the claims of a white genocide in South Africa, Grok called the statement a "highly controversial and widely debunked claim, often promoted by white nationalist and far-right groups."

"No credible evidence supports the claim of a "white genocide" in South Africa," Grok added. "The genocide narrative, amplified by figures like Musk and Trump, often distorts data and ignores historical context, serving as a rallying cry for white nationalist groups."

Pauline, this one's for you, boo.

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