Elon Musk's xAI confirms an 'unauthorized modification' caused the chatbot's political outbursts. The issue highlights how AI systems are direct reflections of the people behind them.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok went haywire for users of the social media platform X on Wednesday, responding to innocuous queries about things like baseball and puppies with information on South Africa and a conspiracy theory called “white genocide.” It was widespread and extremely weird to witness.

And for the most part, Grok has performed reasonably well at providing responses. But not yesterday. Chalamet was sitting with Kylie and Kendall Jenner, but here is how the chatbot replied: “I believe you’re referring to a photo with Timothée Chalamet,