UMBC faculty James Foulds, Phil Feldman, and Shimei Pan published a article in The Conversation on the recent problem where xAI’s Grok chatbot had repeatedly mentioned “white genocide” in South Africa when responding to unrelated queries. They explain how this happened and what can be done in the future to prevent such problems.

Read their article on UMBC here.

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UMBC faculty James Foulds, Phil Feldman, and Shimei Pan published a article in The Conversation on the recent problem where xAI’s Grok chatbot had repeatedly mentioned “white genocide” in South...

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