On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged white genocide in South Africa . xAI now says that odd behavior was the result of an unauthorized modification to the Grok system prompt—the core set of directions for how the LLM should behave. That prompt modification directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic and violated xAI internal policies and core values, xAI wrote on...
