Phil 5.14.2025

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’

  • Numerous examples of the phenomenon could be found by searching the official Grok profile for posts containing the term “boer,” a word used to refer to people from South Africa of “Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent.” It is sometimes used by Black South Africans as a pejorative against white Afrikaners, or people associated with the apartheid regime. In response to topics ranging from streaming platform HBO Max’s name change to Medicaid cuts proposed by US lawmakers, the chatbot often seemed to initially stay on topic, before veering back to white genocide in South Africa, completely unprompted.

Tasks

  • EU open calls
  • Finish story section for P33
  • SSA
  • Dentist

SBIRs

  • See if Ron added anything to Overleaf – he did! Read his notes, which was really helpful. Updated my entries and fixed some LaTeX bugs.
  • 10:00 RTAT meeting
    • Simple model with more data
    • Simple model with a bigger set of inputs
    • Add to model as needed
  • Created a better surface to explore training the model:
  • Now I need to iterate over the values and produce the data file

GPT Agents

  • 3:00 Alden meeting
  • Add a “Calls for Proposals” section to Trustworthy Information – probably a folder that contains the information on each call in a separate .tex file – started