Elon Musk’s infamous AI chatbot, Grok, was seen calling out Donald Trump like no other.
Think along the lines of declaring Trump as the most notorious criminal in Washington, DC, in a series of posts on Musk’s social network of X.
Replying to questions from users on Sunday and Monday relating to crime in the American capital, Grok claimed that Trump’s 34 felony convictions in New York had to do with him making false business records, and that is what gives him the title of the most infamous prep.
Sharing on Monday, he announced more plans to federalize the entire country’s capital police department and deploy the National Guard soldiers to the city streets. He mentioned in defiance of evidence that the crime is currently out of control. The statements probably don’t reflect any kind of major opinion held by Grok, and may or may not result in a deep analysis of crime in the capital.
Though recent updates explained reasoning abilities, chatbots like Grok still work largely to produce plausible-sounding replies to certain prompts, depending on various statistical patterns of human speech.
There’s usually little consistency between those replies to various users, and they can invent facts out of whole cloth.