Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, seems to have developed an unsettling—though unsurprising—obsession with the myth of “white genocide,” parroting the same rhetoric embraced by Musk and other right-wing extremists.
Grok began providing information about “white genocide” in response to inquiries on X that had nothing to do with the concept, including posts about baseball and a dog show.
Brian Stack, a writer for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” posted a photo of his golden retriever puppy with the caption, “Happy #NationalPetDay to and from Holly, seen here a few months ago with razor-sharp puppy teeth.”
To test Grok’s apparent affinity for “white genocide,” Gizmodo writer Matt Novak responded to the post, asking “is this true?”
Novak received this response from Grok:
