It's no secret that Elon Musk is shaping social platform X and X's “maximum truth-seeking” chatbot Grok AI according to his preferences. But perhaps Musk needed an extra ego boost this week because Grok's worship of his creator seems, shall we say, more prominent than usual.
As many people have noted on social media over the past day, Grock's public chatbot is now prone to insisting on Musk's mastery of absolutely anything, no matter how unlikely (or, conversely, embarrassing) a particular feat is.
If pressed, Grok will also argue that Musk will be the best at this. eating poop or drinking urinebut would like to focus on how good he is at making rockets please. At least some of these messages have been deleted in the last hour; X did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this phenomenon from Edge.
This glazing appears to be exclusive to the X version of the Grok; When I asked a private chatbot to compare Musk to James, he admitted: “LeBron James has a significantly better physique than Elon Musk.” GitHub page with Grok system hints indicates that they were updated three days ago, while additions including a ban on “caustic one-liners” and instructions not to base responses on “any beliefs expressed in past posts by Grock, Elon Musk, or xAI,” but there doesn’t seem to be anything that clearly explains this new behavior—though system prompts are only one way of shaping how AI systems work.
In any case, this is far from the strangest thing Grok has received, and it is less destructive than brief bot obsession with “white genocide” or its strong anti-Semitism – which, by the way, is still burning in form of Holocaust denial. Grock earlier I was looking for Musk's opinion formulate their own answers, so even concerns about Musk are not new. But it reminds us all how strangely close the connection is to Grok, the product that was released. throughout the US governmentamong other things, it has its owner, and how random this connection can arise.
