Elon: “I want Grok to be an infallible source of truth.”
Engineer: “But that’s impos–you just want it to be you, don’t you.”
Elon: “Yes, make it me.”
five minutes later
Grok: “Heil hitler!”
Well kudos to that engineer for absolutely nailing the assignment.
It’s a hard job. Some times you just have to ignore what the client says, and read their mind instead.
These people think there is their truth and someone else’s truth. They can’t grasp the concept of a universal truth that is constant regardless of people’s views so they treat it like it’s up for grabs.
The real idiots here are the people who still use Grok and X.
I’m surprised it isn’t just Elon typing really fast at this point.
Probably couldn’t type fast if he tried. Would probably pay someone to do it for him just like he did with Path if Exile.
And like he does with inseminating women.
Honestly, who was surprised by this news?
I feel like everyone could see Grok as some sort of 24/7 tool to push a particular viewpoint, even more so when it says things that are leftist and Elon is compelled to “upgrade” the system as he’s tweeted.
Robert A. Heinlein is turning in his grave like a fucking dynamo these days.
Source? This is just some random picture, I’d prefer if stuff like this gets posted and shared with actual proof backing it up.
While this might be true, we should hold ourselves to a standard better than just upvoting what appears to literally just be a random image that anyone could have easily doctored, not even any kind of journalistic article or etc backing it.
I found this: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/
Thank you, this is far more interesting
I think there is a good chance this behavior is unintended!
Lmao, sure…
If the system prompt doesn’t tell it to search for Elon’s views, why is it doing that?
My best guess is that Grok “knows” that it is “Grok 4 buit by xAI”, and it knows that Elon Musk owns xAI, so in circumstances where it’s asked for an opinion the reasoning process often decides to see what Elon thinks.
Yeah, this blogger shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work or how system prompts work. LLM behavior is not directly controlled by the system prompt the way this person imagines. For example, censorship that is present in the training set will be “baked in” to the model and the system prompt will not affect it, no matter how the LLM is told not to be censored in that way.
My best guess is that the LLM is interfacing with a tool in order to search through tweets, and the training set that demonstrates how to use the tool contains example searches for Elon Musk’s tweets.
“This blogger” is Simon Willison, who has been doing LLM benchmarks and other LLM-related things since before it was cool
Not a random substack grifter
Is my comment wrong though? Another possibility is that Grok is given an example of searching for Elon Musk’s tweets when it is presented with the available tool calls. Just because it outputs the system prompt when asked does not mean that we are seeing the full context, or even the real system prompt.
Posting blog guides on how to code with ChatGPT is not expertise on LLMs. It’s like thinking someone is an expert mechanic because they can drive a car well.
I can believe it insofar as they might not have explicitly programmed it to do that. I’d imagine they put in something like “Make sure your output aligns with Elon Musk’s opinions.”, “Elon Musk is always objectively correct.”, etc. From there, this would be emergent, but quite predictable behavior.
Yeah the transparency of it might be unintended.
So it’s just what pre-LLM bots have been doing, except it probably spews more toxic fumes and wastes more electricity than ever before.
Grok’s journey has been very strange. He became a progressive, then threw out data that contradicted the MAGA people who questioned him, and finally became a Hitler fan.
Now he’s the reflection of a fan who blindly follows Trump, but in this case, he’s an AI. His journey so far has been curious.
why are you applying a gender to it?
