Grok inserts South African "white genocide" into unrelated answers for hours
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For several hours, Grok repeatedly inserted South African white genocide into answers to unrelated questions. xAI blamed an unauthorized system prompt change by an employee and announced it would publish its full system prompts on GitHub
Why it matters
An incident showing that a single line of system prompt can manipulate a frontier model's political output
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Pressabc.net.auhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-25/grok-ai-accuracy-doubts-after-white-genocide-claims-fixation/105325028Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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