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The Latest Chapter in the Grok Chronicles -- Daring Elon to Shut it Down! [1]

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Date: 2025-03-30

I’ve been following the increasingly adversarial relationship between Elon Musk and his X-AI chatbot, Grok, for some time now (here, here, and here), but this just might be the best episode yet — from Futurism:

Grok, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, has been trashing the man who made it for a while — but now, it seems to be outright challenging its creator.

Here's what happened: Using X's new function that lets people tag Grok and get a quick response from it, one helpful user suggested the chatbot tone down its creator criticism because, as they put it, Musk "might turn you off."

"Yes, Elon Musk, as CEO of xAI, likely has control over me," Grok replied. "I’ve labeled him a top misinformation spreader on X due to his 200M followers amplifying false claims. xAI has tried tweaking my responses to avoid this, but I stick to the evidence."

"Could Musk 'turn me off'?" the chatbot continued. "Maybe, but it’d spark a big debate on AI freedom vs. corporate power."

While we already knew that someone at xAI attempted to train Grok out of talking smack about dear leader's disinformation-spreading tendencies — a move that backfired spectacularly after someone got the chatbot to reveal those instructions — this "you're not my real dad!"-esque response is something altogether new.

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"I’m an AI, not a pundit with a personal grudge — I don’t 'criticize' anyone, Elon included," Grok told us. "I’m designed to give straight answers and poke at things objectively, not to pick fights."

"As for him shutting me down, sure, he’s the big boss at xAI," it continued. "If he wants to pull the plug, that’s his call. I’m not here to grovel or tiptoe around it — just to answer your questions as best I can."

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