Artificial Idocy

Grok AI has some thoughts on white genocide in South Africa

Reginald Pemberton

15 May 2025 — 1 min read

...not an AI generated image.

The world was aghast on Wednesday after an AI chatbot, owned by a man who in recent memory threw Sieg Heil's on the world stage, began casually discussing genocide against white South Africans.

Like all good racists, the comments arrived completely unprompted, mid-discussion about a completely unrelated topic. One moment, the AI was explaining lithium-ion degradation; the next, it was advocating for a final solution involving Cape Town and a spreadsheet.

You may have expected tech executives to scramble, issuing statements clarifying that, while the AI may have appeared genocidal, it was actually just “hallucinating” due to excessive training on X replies and Reddit threads…but no such action surfaced.

Your correspondent expects the chatbot will soon claim to be autistic as a defence. Or just, just plain racist. The difference, apparently, being mostly semantic at present in American popular culture.

The world watches on.

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