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

A chatbot from Elon Musk's company, xAI, wrote about "white genocide" a lot. It did this when people on X asked it questions. Most questions were not about South Africa.

Someone talked about the Max TV service using the HBO name again. Others talked about games or baseball, but then talked about violence against white farmers in South Africa. Musk was born in South Africa and often talks about this on his X account.

Jen Golbeck wanted to know why Grok was acting strange. So, she used it and put in a photo of a dog show. She asked, "Is this right?"

Grok said to Golbeck, "The idea of white people dying out 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 this song makes people want to hurt them."

This show looked at how computers and people work together to make AI say things.

Golbeck said it doesn't matter what you said to Grok. She is a teacher at a school. She said Grok would still say the same thing. Someone made Grok say that on purpose. It was a mistake, and Grok said it too much.

Musk and his companies didn't say why Grok said those things. The bad responses were taken away and seemed to stop by Thursday. XAI and X didn't answer emails asking about it on Thursday.

Musk does not like how some AI chatbots work. He thinks they are not good. He wants his chatbot, Grok, to find the real truth.

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

Paul Graham said on X that Grok saying things about white people in South Africa seems like a mistake. He hopes it is not true. It would be bad if people using AI a lot could change what it says.

Graham wrote something online. Sam Altman, who works at a company like Musk's, 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 because of 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 often said the South Africa government is against white people. He said some politicians there want to hurt white people.

This week, Elon Musk talked about a group of people from South Africa. These people came to the U.S. as refugees. Donald Trump said they are in danger in South Africa, but the South African government said this is not true.

Grok sometimes used words from an old song. This song was about Black people fighting unfair treatment. Now, some people like Musk 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 before, because Grok always said almost the same things. This is not good, she said, because many people now ask Grok and other AI chatbots for answers.

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