“The claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious and lacks credible evidence,” the Grok-powered X account replied to New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac, who was initially inquiring about a cat video.

Several X users were shocked yesterday when they found that asking Grok — X's AI chatbot — innocuous questions about Fortnite, HBO, and the WWE seemingly caused the bot to go off on an unrelated tangent about South Africa and "white genocide."

AI's Grok responded to some X users' posts about "white genocide" on Wednesday. BI asked why it was doing that and its responses kept shifting.