Posted on 11/20/2025 4:35:03 PM PST by Miami Rebel
Elon Musk’s AI assistant Grok boasted on Thursday that the billionaire had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” among other absurd claims championing its creator.
After the AI assistant praised Musk’s physique and claimed he ranked “among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” social media users quickly discovered that Grok was programmed to say positive things about Musk, no matter the topic.
But according to 404 Media, in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.
Grok also claimed Musk was more fit than LeBron James.
After the posts were deleted, Musk responded in a statement, saying, “Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me. For the record, I am a fat retard.”
“If I up my game a lot, the future AI might say ‘he was smart … for a human,” he added.
It wasn’t the first time Musk’s AI assistant went haywire.
In June, Musk was forced to publicly correct Grok after it claimed the billionaire had boasted about stealing White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s wife.
“A screenshot shared on X shows Musk replying to Stephen Miller’s post with ‘Just like I took your wife’,” said Grok. “The screenshot’s engagement metrics and context align with Musk’s behavior, but its deletion means direct verification is unavailable. While a fabricated screenshot is possible, the evidence leans toward the post being real but removed, consistent with Musk’s pattern of deleting controversial posts.”
Musk responded, “No, it’s fake ffs… I never posted this.”
Just one month later, Musk had to shut down the bot after it went on a series of pro-Hitler rants.
This month, Vice President JD Vance and Fox News host Sean Hannity both declared Grok to be their favorite AI assistant.
“I’m a Grok guy,” said Vance. “I think it’s the best. It’s also the least woke!”
This year, the Department of Defense entered a contract to begin using Grok for an unknown purpose.
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I didn't think it rose to a response on my part, but I thought at the time that I find any and all of these chatbots to be highly suspect.
“After the posts were deleted, Musk responded in a statement, saying, “Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me. For the record, I am a fat retard.”
“If I up my game a lot, the future AI might say ‘he was smart … for a human,” he added.”
Good for Musk.
AI remains most mediocre Stand-Up Comedy material.
journalists —— AI infrastructure (tensor flow, etc) is programmed but Large Language Models (LLMs) and others are ‘trained’ using repetitive data and can be polluted.
I personally find it just damn weird that people speak of Grok as if it’s a person. “I asked Grok” — “Grok told me” — “Grok thinks the sky is green” — you get the picture. And it’s a little scary to see how intellectually lazy people have become, and how heavily they rely on Grok and other AI to do their thinking for them.
Grok isn’t a person. And it’s sure as hell not the all-seeing, all-knowing “friend” figure a lot of people seem to think it is.
Besides, Grok has diarrhea of the cyber-mouth. Entire pages of massive paragraphs and run-on sentences. No thanks.
I had no idea I was going to rant so much. Thank you for your time and your patience. Any offense or irritation I may have caused is unintentional.
And that’s the problem with any internet platform created by humans. It’s only as good as the info fed to it by humans, and it can be manipulated by humans for nefarious purposes.
“Content Moderated”
I agree. AI is just another platform to make people even more lazy.
Apple started everyone normalizing it with Siri
In Defense of Grok, it has done better at spotting rare issues than my Doctors have ever done. That is a fact.
But you do have to double check and watch.
If I mention something randomly that I saw in a study it picks up on it and finds the study in seconds. An example is a very rare genetic condition that I have that has very few studies. In seconds it found it and had developed an explanation and synopsis of the study. we then had a discussion as to how and why it might be affecting me
We are being conditioned to accept humanized AI. The brainwashing is working.
Shut up! Grok is so real! He’s my best friend!
LOL...he's got a great sense of humor like President Trump.
grok is at this stage, essentially a compiler of information that is even quicker than the usual search engines. I have used Grok in my disability claims with the VA. It compiles the ratings, odds of getting a certain rating, what is looked for during a C&P exam, etc. Grok also offers templates on letters in various “flavors” such as casual. technical, homey, realistic, human sounding, etc.
That last bit is up to me to determine how to actually write my various letters, but the template is a good guideline.
As with using anything, always double check. I have found that Grok makes mistakes and I inform the AI compiler that a certain fact, or whatever, is wrong. Grok then owns up to the mistake, uses the new information to compile a new set of variables based upon the new information.
I have used Grok this week for simple automotive diagnostics. (It was the solenoid as I expected) But I also asked for why the lift gate in the bus van was not getting electricity. (A short or chewed wire was my fear) But Grok suggested that the door micro-switch might be the culprit. Indeed, the cover housing of said switch looked askew and Monday I will get a chance to take a look at it—I remembered in the past that I had similiar issues and indeed the micro-switch was the answer—it is just that I forgot about it..
So, all in all, a machine is just that, a machine. I imagine Grok is being created to assist humans on their endeavors on Mars, in fact Grok itself admits to as much—as all of Elon’s pursuits are geared toward that goal of surviving on the Red Planet.
To date I have found Grok to be helpful—at least for my questions. Everyone elses mileage may vary.
On a side note. I have written two books and stalled on the third installment. (stalled by ten years mind you.) I have numerous chapters written and information compiled in all sorts of formats. So, for giggles, I inputed the text files of the first two stories and all the information regarding the third. I asked Grok what can we do?
The imagination of Grok was silly fast—but almost out of control. And it delved into directions that I did not want...I needed to rein Grok in so to speak.
So I have set parameters and will have ultimate say if I decide to use Grok for writing assistance. I see using something like Grok as a proof reader—that saves money and time for certain. But using Grok as a writer? I dunno.
In fact I asked Grok about the ethics of using AI for writing novels. I was surprised to read that Grok did not think there were any ethical issues using AI as a writing assistant. But at least in my case, I have pre-written “stuff” and am using Grok assistance as an assembler of sorts. I have to this date, only played around at the edges. I have other projects I am doing and will get to the novel writing at a later date.
Anyway, that has been my experience using Grok.
I used it to create different versions of video based on something someone here said. that worked great until i used some version of the word palestine then it shut me down. LOLOL Israel was fine. Palestine was not.
So tell it to reply in the format you want. Want detailed, say so. Bullet point lists, or a table; or haiku. (just don’t expect much from the haiku).
I enjoyed reading your post.
GIGO has been a known problem for many decades. AI has just taken that to a whole new quantum level.
I think that is part of why they get along so well.
LOL!! I had to look GIGO up.
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