Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post unsolicited claims on social media about the persecution and “genocide” of white people in South Africa.

Some X users on Wednesday asked Grok – the AI chatbot available through Elon Musk’s social media platform – questions about simple topics like baseball players or videos of fish being flushed down toilets.

While a few utmost features appear to be their possession, artificial intelligence chatbots are expected to receive caught off guard by hallucinations or glitches, and back over the past few weeks xAI’s Grok chatbot got affected by a bug,