how did Twitter’s AI get so obsessed with white genocide?

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Kaleidoscope

Technology, Science, Tech News, News

4.7 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

For about 24 hours, Grok, Twitter’s AI chatbot, went berserk. You could ask it about puppies, sports, or movies, and it would reply with a bizarre diatribe about white genocide in South Africa. If you’ve already heard of this, you’ve probably seen people dunking on Elon Musk, and, well, that’s understandable. But Max Read, today’s guest, explains why this brief peek into a weird conspiracy theory might have actually been a good thing.

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