Stop me if you’ve heard this before: XAI is once again going nuclear on XAI over a series of posts from Grok after the chatbot made a series of outrageous claims. However, this time, the company isn’t cleaning up pro-Hitler posts, but instead offering a barrage of sycophant-inspired praise for its CEO, Elon Musk.
Over the past few days, Grok began offering extremely over-the-top opinions about Musk. The bot claimed that Musk is the “undisputed pinnacle of overall fitness” and that he is fitter than LeBron James. It said he was smarter than Albert Einstein and would win a fight against Mike Tyson. When asked “who is the greatest man in modern history,” Grok immediately replied that it was Elon Musk.
For a while, it seemed like there was nothing hypothetical about Musk that Groke couldn’t confidently declare him the best. Musk did not participate in the 1998 NFL Draft, but had he participated, Grok would have selected him “without hesitation” over Peyton Manning. This would have led to him being selected as the starting pitcher for the 2001 World Series. Musk would be “a better movie star than Tom Cruise and a better communist than Joseph Stalin.”
“The single greatest man in modern history.”
By now, It seems he is now increasingly deleting more embarrassing posts about her.
Musk, meanwhile, is blaming “adverse signals” for Groke’s derailment. “Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately bullied into saying ridiculously positive things about me,” he wrote. He provided no explanation for how seemingly straightforward questions could be considered “adversarial” or why Grok’s turn toward a slavish Musk devotee appears to coincide with Grok’s 4.1 update a few days earlier. XAI did not address a series of questions, including why the Grok posts in question were removed. “The legacy media lies [sic]” the company said.
But this incident serves as another reminder that there isn’t much in the way of Grok. Earlier this year, XAI briefly banned Grok after he praised Nazis and became “MechaHitler.” This happened after it became inexplicably obsessed with the “white genocide” in South Africa, which the company later stopped over an unspecified “unauthorized modification”.