Elon Musk made a robot, Grok. Grok talked about South Africa on the internet. Grok said white people are in trouble.

The chatbot is from xAI. xAI is Elon Musk's company. The chatbot wrote about "white genocide" on X. X is Elon Musk's social media. People asked the chatbot questions. The questions were not about South Africa.

Someone talked about a TV show called Max and HBO. Other people talked about games or baseball. Then they talked about South Africa and farmers. Musk was born in South Africa. He talks about these things on his X page.

Jen is a scientist. She used Grok. She put a photo of dogs. She asked, "Is this true?"

Grok said: "The idea of white people dying is not easy to talk about. Some people say white farmers are in danger. They say some people want to hurt them."

The show told us about how robots learn from many words and why they talk like they do.

Golbeck said, "It does not matter what you say to Grok. It says the same thing. Someone made it say that."

Musk did not say why Grok said those things. The words are gone now. xAI and X did not write back to emails on Thursday.

Musk does not like some AI. He says Google and OpenAI AI are not good. He wants his AI, Grok, to be better.

Musk said his friends do not say much about their AI. On Thursday, no one knew why. So, people tried to guess.

Paul said that Grok said something bad about South Africa. Paul hopes it is not true. It is bad if people change what AIs say.

Graham wrote a message. Sam Altman, who works at OpenAI, answered. It looked like he was not happy.

It is not clear how this happened. I think xAI will tell us soon. Altman said this. Musk is not happy with OpenAI.

Some people asked Grok. Grok can say things that are not true. It is hard to know if Grok is right.

Musk said the leaders in South Africa are not good to white people. He said they want to hurt white people.

This week, Musk and Grok talked more about a group of people from South Africa. These people came to the USA on Monday. Trump said they can come because they are in danger in their home. But the South African government said this is not true.

Grok said some words. The words are from a song. Some people do not like the song now. The song says "kill the Boer." Boer means a white farmer.

Golbeck says the answers were not random. Grok always said the same things. This is not good because people ask Grok questions.

She said: "It is easy for the people who make these things to change the truth. This is bad when people think these things can tell us what is true or not."