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Grok, Elon's already comically biased AI tool, has been tweaked recently to very inorganically start spouting off white genocide rhetoric at random. This is to support the narrative that white afrikaners are being mass murdered in South Africa, when there really isn't any evidence of that.

This is another one of those "Invent an atrocity and then call everyone saying it's not what's happening a genocide denier" type deals. Shit's fucked.

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[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 months ago

I remember about 5 years ago I saw a book titled Stalin's War in Barnes & Noble here in the U.S. Until that point, I'd only ever heard the "Stalin and the USSR were actually responsible for WWII, Hitler was a natural reaction to Bolshevism" from neo-Nazis. Then, there it was, as pop history available in a very public format, presented as historical fact, with no competing narratives. Every other "history" text they had there about socialist countries was the usual "communism is when bad", but this was the first time I'd seen it taken further than horseshoe theory or lesser of two evils.

All this to say we're not arriving at a new step. It's just they're finally rewriting reality more Westerners might be familiar with. Right-wing fringe has steadily been integrated into the mainstream for awhile now. Maybe even longer than I've noticed.