Grok calls Musk greatest human โ RT Entertainment
Elon Muskโs AI chatbot Grok has been telling users that its owner is smarter and more physically fit than anyone in the world, according to media reports. Many of the posts were later deleted, renewing questions about the botโs objectivity.
Muskโs social network X on Thursday was reportedly flooded with examples of Grok praising the billionaire, calling him โstrikingly handsome,โ lauding his โlean, athletic physiqueโ and describing his intellect as โgenius-level.โ The bot also claimed Musk could beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match, ranked him above Leonardo da Vinci, said he was funnier than Jerry Seinfeld and even suggested he would rise from the dead faster than Jesus.
Musk addressed the issue on X on Thursday, saying Grok had been โmanipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive thingsโ about him. โFor the record, I am a fat retard,โ he added.ย
Late on Thursday, some of Grokโs replies appeared to have been deleted, and the chatbot seemed to dial back its praise. After Muskโs statement, the bot gave a more restrained answer about him, placing Musk in its top 10 humans rather than ranking him first, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
This comes amid growing scrutiny of Muskโs AI venture, particularly the latest version of its chatbot, Grok 4, which Musk described at its July release as โthe smartest AI in the world.โ
Users have noted that the bot frequently echoed Muskโs public political views, prompting concerns about bias. It has referenced โwhite genocide,โ questioned Holocaust death tolls, and reportedly made derogatory remarks about politicians. xAI, the Musk-founded startup that develops Grok, has attributed most of these outputs to โunauthorized modificationsโ or rogue employees.
The rollout of the new chatbot version came as the Wall Street Journal reported that Muskโs SpaceX had agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI, which is positioning itself to challenge rivals such as ChatGPT and Googleโs Gemini, systems Musk has accused of having a liberal bias.
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