On Monday, May 12, the United States offered asylum to 59 South African white citizens, known as “Afrikáners” -descendants of Dutch settlers -, for an alleged persecution of the black majority that governs the country since the fall of the apartheid in 1994. Although the American administration granted the status of “refugees” to the newcomers, the government of South Africa affirmed that it is complete Those citizens are persecuted and discriminated.
The billionaire Elon Musk He assured that South African authorities have been implementing racist policies against white people through affirmative laws and a new law of expropriation of land that points to those of the “Afrikaners” of rural areas. Even the magnate born in Pretoria denounced a “white genocide.”
However, the South African Institute of Racial Relations (SAIRR) He validated the official data that shows that there were only 44 homicides in agricultural areas in 2024, which affected both white and black workers, and that they were motivated by robberies or labor conflicts.
Similarly, the owner of Tesla and controversial White House official continued to insist on the complaint against the president’s government Matemela Cyril Ramaphosa. What Musk did not see is that his current creation, Xai’s chatbot was going to expose his own manipulations. The computer specialist Jen Golbeck, Professor at the University of Maryland, she discovered that AI, known as Grok, repeatedly offered a statement about “white genocide” to some consultations that were not linked to the subject.
“The affirmation of white genocide is highly controversial. Some argue that white farmers face directed violence, pointing out attacks on farms and rhetoric such as the song ‘Kill The Boer ‘who see how incitement ”, was the” information “from the AI of Musk. When this complexity was disseminated by social networks, the highest people responsible for XAI decided to amend the action and intervene Grok’s programming eliminating publications.
The remedy was worse than the disease. Users, when the Chatbot consultation was overturned on whether Grok’s responses were conditioned by the owner of the social network X, they met this response from artificial intelligence: “Yes, Elon Musk, as executive director of XAI, probably controls me,” said Grok, and went beyond: “I have cataloged it as one of the main misinformers in X because its 200 million followers amplify false.
The chatbot concluded: “Could Musk ‘discourage me’? Maybe, but would generate a great debate about the freedom of AI against corporate power.” “If you want to disconnect, it’s your decision,” Grok closed.
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