Some X users on Wednesday noticed xAI's Grok bringing up 'white genocide' in South Africa in unrelated discussions, a claim South Africa's government calls unfounded. xAI said an unauthorized change to Grok's response software, made early Wednesday and circumventing normal review, violated its policies, and promised to publish Grok's system prompts on GitHub and set up a round-the-clock monitoring team.
MIT said a doctoral student's paper claiming an AI tool led a materials science lab to more discoveries and patent filings should be 'withdrawn from public discourse', with Daron Acemoglu and David Autor, who had praised it, saying they had 'no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data'. The author, named in the preprint as Aidan Toner-Rodgers, is 'no longer at MIT'.
Hundreds of AI-generated videos portraying Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traoré as a pan-African hero, many carrying false information, have flooded social media across Sub-Saharan Africa since late April, the BBC found, including deepfake music videos featuring Beyoncé, Rihanna and Selena Gomez. One Nigerian creator said an R. Kelly deepfake earned $2000 through YouTube monetisation.
