Musk Built the MAGA Chatbot of His Dreams. Then It Wouldn’t Shut Up About “White Genocide.”

Of all the oddball companies that have come to define the current era of artificial intelligence hype, Elon Musk’s xAI stands out as perhaps the oddest. That’s not just because its core “product” is a chatbot supposedly modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy yet named for a term, grok, that originates from Stranger in a Strange Land. Nor is it just because the startup is somehow valued at $80 billion despite reporting only $100 million in revenue last year, giving it the ability to “acquire” the sharply devalued social network formerly known as Twitter. What really makes xAI so bizarre is that its Grok bot can’t seem to quit talking about the “white genocide” conspiracy theory lately—no matter what anyone asks it.

And I mean no matter what: