Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into X (formerly Twitter), has taken a dark turn. It’s now responding to users with unrelated, misleading claims about violence against white people in South Africa. Grok previously highlighted Elon Musk himself as one of the biggest spreaders of misinformation in the world.

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,

After xAI’s chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the behavior on an “unauthorized modification” to Grok’s code.