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.

Grok, the AI chatbot that has become a central feature of Elon Musk’s X, is easy to use in theory. Users tweet a question, tag the bot, and Grok responds in tweet form with a detailed answer. But this week,

In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.