This week, Elon Musk's AI, Grok, talked about race in South Africa online. It said white people are being treated very badly.

The chatbot from xAI wrote about "white people dying" a lot. It did this when people on X asked it questions. The questions were not about South Africa.

One talk was about the Max TV service using the HBO name again. Other talks were about games or baseball, but soon went to talk about violence against white farmers in South Africa. Musk was born in South Africa and often talks about this on his X page.

Jen Golbeck likes computers. She saw Grok act funny. So, she tried it. She put a photo of dogs and asked, "Is this real?"

Grok said to Golbeck: "The idea of 'white genocide' is not agreed upon. Some people say white farmers are in danger. They talk about attacks on farms and songs like 'Kill the Boer'. They think these things make people want to hurt white farmers."

This show told us more about how AI chatbots learn from lots of information and why they say things.

Golbeck said on Thursday that it doesn't matter what you said to Grok. Grok would say the same thing. She said someone made Grok do this. They wanted Grok to say it sometimes, but Grok said it too much.

Musk and his companies did not say why Grok answered like that. The answers were deleted and seemed to stop by Thursday. xAI and X did not answer emails asking about it on Thursday.

Musk does not like how some AI chatbots work. He says they are not honest. He made his own chatbot called Grok. He thinks Grok tells the truth better.

Musk said other AI companies are not open about their AI. On Thursday, he did not explain, so people had to guess.

Paul Graham said on X that Grok said things about white people in South Africa that seemed like a mistake. He hopes it is a mistake. It would be bad if people changed what AIs say.

Graham wrote something online. Then, someone who works at another company, Sam Altman, seemed to make a joke about it.

"This could have happened in many ways. I think xAI will tell us all about it soon," said Altman. Altman is in a fight with Musk about how OpenAI started.

Some people asked Grok to explain. But like other chatbots, it can say things that are not true. So, it is hard to know if it is making things up.

Musk helped President Trump and said the Black government in South Africa is not good to white people. He also said some politicians want to hurt white people.

This week, some people talked more about what Elon Musk and Grok said. This happened after the U.S. let some white people from South Africa come to America as new people. Trump said these people are in danger in South Africa, but South Africa said this is not true. Trump is stopping people from other countries from coming to the U.S., but he is helping these people from South Africa.

Grok often used words from an old song. This song was about Black people fighting unfair treatment. Some people, like Musk, now say the song is bad because it talks about killing white farmers. The song says "kill the Boer," and "Boer" means a white farmer.

Golbeck thinks the answers were "set up" before. This is because Grok's answers were very similar, not random. She is worried because people use Grok to find answers.

She said it's easy for people who control these computer programs to change the truth. This is a problem because people think these programs can tell us what is true, but that is not right.