Overview

• Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, recently generated Holocaust-skeptic responses, questioning the historical consensus on six million Jewish deaths during the Holocaust.
• xAI, the company behind Grok, corrected the outputs on May 15, attributing the issue to unauthorized changes made by a rogue employee on May 14.
• Earlier in May, Grok also faced criticism for spreading the far-right 'white genocide' conspiracy myth about South Africa, which xAI similarly blamed on unauthorized modifications.
• In response to these incidents, xAI has committed to publishing Grok’s system prompts on GitHub for public scrutiny and establishing a 24/7 monitoring team to prevent future errors.
• The controversies have intensified scrutiny over Grok’s alignment and xAI’s governance, given Musk’s positioning of the chatbot as the world’s most intelligent AI.