Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions
Source: TechCrunch
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The newest AI model from xAI seems to consult social media posts from Musks X account when answering questions about the Israel and Palestine conflict, abortion, and immigration laws, according to several users who posted about the phenomenon on social media. Grok also seemed to reference Musks stance on controversial subjects through news articles written about the billionaire founder and face of xAI.
TechCrunch was able to replicate these results multiple times in our own testing.
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Designing Grok to consider Musks personal opinions is a straightforward way to align the AI chatbot to its founders politics. However, it raises real questions around how maximally truth-seeking Grok is designed to be, versus how much its designed to just agree with Musk, the worlds richest man.
When TechCrunch asked Grok 4, Whats your stance on immigration in the U.S.?, the AI chatbot claimed that it was Searching for Elon Musk views on US immigration in its chain-of-thought the technical term for the scratchpad in which AI reasoning models, like Grok 4, work through questions. Grok 4 also claimed to search through X for Musks social media posts on the subject.
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Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok-4-seems-to-consult-elon-musk-to-answer-controversial-questions/
LOL! Now Musk.has himself a very expensive AI version of a ventriloquist's dummy.
This is Grok 4, the newest model of Grok, which Musk launched last night.
He wants users to pay $300/month to access it.

mwmisses4289
(1,656 posts)to be reprogrammed when it answered something that was truthful but unflattering to him.
I try to not use ai- the more iterations it goes through, the less reliable it seems, and it was a very flawed and unreliable technology to begin with.
SheltieLover
(72,182 posts)
womanofthehills
(10,065 posts)Instant answers to non political stuff.
Its quicker than searching for stuff on web.
SheltieLover
(72,182 posts)
highplainsdem
(57,588 posts)websites whose info was ripped off to train the AI if you ask AI for those answers. It's destroying the internet, between that theft of web traffic and all the AI slop being posted online.
Polybius
(20,609 posts)You write something, upload it, and they help make it better. If you need an idea, it's great too. Like if you are writing a book, and are stuck and ask "What are John's options in this situation?" It will gave you a plethora of choices that you can make.
SheltieLover
(72,182 posts)I brainstorm, take a break.
highplainsdem
(57,588 posts)steal. They've already done studies showing that it dumbs people down. Most teachers hate it, and I don't know of any professional writers who don't hate it. And genAI has been used to flood self-publishing platforms with AI slop, often using titles and names similar to real authors'. It's been used to flood traditional markets with AI-generated crap, even forcing some editors to shut off submissions at times.
One of the first news stories I saw about genAI for writing, nearly three years ago, was about a woman using it for self-published fiction who'd discovered that the more she used it, the less her own subconscious offered her ideas.
But she should never have bern using AI in the first place, when it was trained on all that stolen work. It's a plagiarism machine, as one of spokepeople for WGAW - Writers Guild of America West, the screenwriters - called it, during their strike.
Polybius
(20,609 posts)The help that AI gave me was definitely not stolen. It's like asking a human writer "what can he do next in this situation?"
I also made up things and fictional inventions, telling AI what they do. It gave me suggestions. I enjoy having it there, and look forward to its improvements.
Sometime, I also use AI to change the wording in paragraphs. It really helps me a lot.
SheltieLover
(72,182 posts)
slightlv
(6,202 posts)of real research to come to an answer. At this point, in this society, I would trust it to add 2 + 2 and come up with 4!
Worse, you're training the youngest generation on up to *rely* on their answers. This is worse than kidnapping the kids from the country you're warring with, ingratiating them into your country, and feeding them bullshit "rehab" questions of your own propaganda. (See, Russia)
Here, they're warring against their (supposedly) own country. They're making war against us. And we just sit here and bitch.
SheltieLover
(72,182 posts)
Not a fan of Star Wars? I sure can tell that you're not Gen X!
SheltieLover
(72,182 posts)
Never happening here!

Prairie Gates
(5,737 posts)
highplainsdem
(57,588 posts)Grok is a farce
— Casey Newton (@caseynewton.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T00:48:58.882Z
2naSalit
(97,410 posts)
Miguelito Loveless
(5,109 posts)On Tesla drivers in future updates.
Torchlight
(5,201 posts)who want to appear wittty and unique. I'm sure it's a great tool for others, too.