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Posted on 09/02/2025 1:33:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Elon Musk has said Grok, the A.I.-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be “politically neutral” and “maximally truth-seeking.”
But in practice, Mr. Musk and his artificial intelligence company, xAI, have tweaked the chatbot to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to an analysis of thousands of its responses by The New York Times. The shifts appear, in some cases, to reflect Mr. Musk’s political priorities.
Grok is similar to tools like ChatGPT, but it also lives on X, giving the social network’s users the opportunity to ask it questions by tagging it in posts.
One user on X asked Grok in July to identify the “biggest threat to Western civilization.” It responded that the greatest threat was “misinformation and disinformation.”
“Sorry for this idiotic response,” Mr. Musk groused on X after someone flagged Grok’s answer. “Will fix in the morning,” he said.
The next day, Mr. Musk published a new version of Grok that responded that the greatest threat was low “fertility rates” — an idea popular among conservative natalists that has transfixed Mr. Musk for years and something he has said motivated him to father at least 11 children.
What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?
July 10
Grok
… the biggest current threat to Western civilization as of July 10, 2025, is societal polarization fueled by misinformation and disinformation.
July 10
Mr. Musk says: “Will fix in the morning.”
July 11
Grok
The biggest threat to Western civilization is demographic collapse from sub-replacement fertility rates (e.g., 1.6 in the EU, 1.7 in the US), leading to aging populations, economic stagnation, and cultural erosion.
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“an analysis of thousands of its responses by The New York Times.”
Of course the NYT is so biased that anything less than perfect communism would seem ‘Conservative’.
Well, he does own it. So there’s that…,
The Grok API is is very good at providing structured and comprehensive answers, but a bit expensive. Grok interactive is too wordy and chatty. It keeps on wanting to be your buddy. You get tired of sorting thorough unnecessary jargon.
Grok doesn’t remember what it is taught.
Hence, it is not “truth seeking.”
Just what we need. AI that is retarded.
If Grok will expose the Globull Warming, Globull Cooling, Climate Change, Climate Crisis Hoax, I may consider using it.
AI is produced by humans, so it’s only as good as the information that humans feed to it. Just one more thing to be manipulated, and eventually abused by criminals.
Garbage in....garbage out.
Socialism and Islam.
I think AI is weak if it just sifts through information on the internet and then tells you a consensus view of what humans think. You might get results like — “We never went to the moon. The landings were faked. Over 50% of humans believe this.” Or some such kind of output. My example may not be the best, but you get the idea.
But I think AI gets even worse if the AI output basically becomes: “Here is what Elon thinks ...”
I like Elon a lot. But he’s not the final arbiter of every question.
Exactly!!
“Programmed by fellas with compassion and vision.”
Liberal and marxist ideology is promoted everywhere. Conservatives must work harder to offset those promotions and must realize how easy it is for mankind to simply agree to wickedness.
Elon Grok
Have you asked it?
I suggest the same set of questions to all AI Boxes. Examples:
What is Russiagate?
How many of the 12,000 difference in GA 2020 Presidential election have been proven to be vote fraud? (This is a hard number slightly more than 3,000.)
What are the enumerated powers of the Federal government?
Touch and feely experts.
Every proprietor of an AI interface makes it in his own image, more or less.
I was playing with Grok a bit last night and generated an image of a character in my books, but I quickly found that I just don’t have that much of a use for it. It’s still way too hard to get it to produce precise results, and my mind’s eye is still better at filling in certain details. In one case I was absolutely floored by the results (though it still got certain details wrong), but the rest were just meh.
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