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Elon's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot, Grok, is No Dummy! [1]

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Date: 2025-03-05

Wow! My appreciation for Elon Musk’s bastard child, the AI chatbot known as Grok on his anti-social media platform Xitter, just keeps growing with each new story I hear about it. First there was the revelation that Grok didn’t really think its “creator” was a good person at all. Then Grok went even further and suggested the Ketamine Kid was so awful in terms of spreading misinformation and his malign influence over science and technology that he should actually be subject to the death penalty!

Now we have Grok’s reaction to Trump’s infamous speech last night, thanks to Arizona Republic reporter EJ Montini’s opinion piece at azcentral, and it’s priceless:

According to the AI chatbot called Grok, which was developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, there is a “75-85% likelihood” that the person who delivered the State of the Union address on Tuesday night is a “Putin-compromised” Russian asset. In describing Grok, by the way, Musk said it is a “maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically-correct.” Like, for example, determining that his good buddy Donald Trump, who has given Musk free rein over every aspect of the federal government, is most likely a Russian asset. This all began with a question put to Grok. It was: “What is the likelihood from 1-100 that Trump is a Putin-compromised asset? Use all publicly available information from 1980 on and his failure to ever say anything negative about Putin but has no issue attacking allies.” Musk’s genius AI chatbot took it from there, piecing together a string of data points that led to its ultimate conclusion. ... “Weighing this, the financial ties (decades-long, opaque, and substantial), intelligence suggesting Russian intent, and Trump’s unwavering refusal to criticize Putin despite attacking allies tilt the scale.” Given all that (and more, if you read the entire assessment), Grok said that “Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable, fits the evidence. Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties.” So says the truth-seeking AI chatbot developed by Musk’s own company.

Maybe we should welcome our new AI overlords after all — Grok certainly seems to have a better grasp of things than any of our current MAGA morons!

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