It’s no secret that Elon Musk created the X social platform and X’s “discovery of greater truth.” But it’s possible Kasturi needs a little extra ego boost this week, as Guruk’s worship of his creator seems, shall we say, more noticeable than usual.
As several people have pointed out on social media in the past day, Grok’s public-facing chatbot is currently prone to insisting on Musk’s ability to do anything at all, regardless of how unlikely—or, conversely, embarrassing—a given feat might be.
If pressed, Grok will also claim that Musk would be great at eating poop or drinking urine, but would prefer to focus on how good he is at building rockets, please. At least some of those posts were deleted in the past hours. X did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the trend Verge.
This appears to be exclusive to the X version of Glazing Guru. “LeBron James is significantly better physically than Elon Musk,” he admitted when I asked the private chatbot to compare Musk to James. The GitHub page for Grok’s system tips shows that they were updated three days ago, including a ban on “snappy one-liners” and instructions not to “base responses in past Grok posts or on any beliefs expressed by Elon Musk or Zai, but there’s nothing that clearly spells out this new behavior—though the system’s tips are the only way to go.”
Either way, it’s far from the weirdest grok, and it’s less disturbing than BOT’s brief obsession with “white genocide” or its ferocious animosity—which, incidentally, is still raging in the form of Holocaust denial. Grok has previously sought Musk’s input to formulate his responses, so even the engagement with Musk is nothing new. But it does remind us all of the strangeness of the Connection Guru — a product developed in the U.S. government, among other places, with its owner — and how randomly that connection appears.
