Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions [View all]
Source: TechCrunch
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The newest AI model from xAI seems to consult social media posts from Musk’s 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 Musk’s 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 Musk’s personal opinions is a straightforward way to align the AI chatbot to its founder’s politics. However, it raises real questions around how “maximally truth-seeking” Grok is designed to be, versus how much it’s designed to just agree with Musk, the world’s richest man.
When TechCrunch asked Grok 4, “What’s 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 Musk’s 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.
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