This week, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok talked about race in South Africa on social media. It said some white people are treated very badly.

The chatbot from xAI said things about "white genocide" 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 they soon talked about other things, like some people saying bad things about white farmers in South Africa. Musk was born in South Africa. He often talks about these things on his X page.

Jen Golbeck wanted to know about Grok. She used it and shared a photo of dogs. She asked, "Is this right?"

Grok said to Golbeck, "The idea of white people being killed is not agreed upon. Some 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 told us more about how AI chatbots learn from lots of information and why they say what they say.

Golbeck, a teacher at a school, said on Thursday that it doesn't matter what you said to Grok. It would still say the same thing. So, it looked like someone told it to say that, and made a mistake. It was saying it too much.

Musk and his companies did not say why Grok said those things. The words were taken away 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 thinks his chatbot, Grok, is better because it looks for the truth.

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

Paul Graham said on X that Grok said some strange things about South Africa. He thinks it might be a bug. He hopes AI will not say things that people who control them want them to say.

Graham wrote something online. Then, Musk's rival, Sam Altman from OpenAI, answered. It seemed like a joke.

This could have happened in many ways. I think xAI will tell us all about it soon. Altman said this. Musk is not happy with Altman about how OpenAI started. He has taken Altman to court.

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

Musk helped President Trump. He often said the government in South Africa does not like white people. He 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 South Africans come to America as refugees on Monday. Trump wants more of these people, called Afrikaners, to move here. At the same time, Trump is stopping people from other countries from coming to the U.S. Trump says the Afrikaners are in danger in South Africa, but the South African government says this is not true.

Grok sometimes used words from an old song. The song asked Black people to fight against unfair treatment. Now, some people like Musk say the song tells people to kill white farmers. The song says "kill the Boer." "Boer" means a white farmer.

Golbeck thinks the answers were fixed. The chatbot usually gives different answers, but this one gave the same answers again and again. She is worried because people use chatbots like this 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's not right.