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Grok suffered another deranged posting spree yesterday. Instead of merely singing the praises of its creator Elon Musk, as it normally does, it began glazing him with outrageous panegyrics so divorced from reality that users all over the site took notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n Musk wasn\u2019t just smart, according to Grok, but one of the top ten greatest minds that ever lived, along with Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton. He wasn\u2019t merely in shape, but a greater athlete than LeBron James, capable of beating Mike Tyson in a fight. He wasn\u2019t just a role model, but a greater one than Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n The infamously foul-mouthed chatbot has been known to give off-the-wall responses, but this was bizarre even by its standards. All of a sudden, almost anything you asked it about Musk would result in it extolling his virtues to a preposterous degree, ranging from his Olympian physique to Sisyphean work ethic.<\/p>\n Understandably, people were suspicious; Musk has a history of tampering with his AI, not to mention being a vain<\/a> egomaniac<\/a>.<\/p>\n But no matter. Musk, with all his effortless charisma, sought to dispel the suspicion by blaming his enemies \u2014 and deploying a slur for the mentally handicapped against himself, for reasons we can only guess at.<\/p>\n \u201cEarlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me,\u201d Musk conceded<\/a> on Thursday afternoon. \u201cFor the record, I am a fat retard \ud83d\ude00.\u201d<\/p>\n Sure, in many cases, some users clearly tried to egg on Grok into making increasingly absurd proclamations about Musk. With enough light prodding, you could get Grok to declare that Musk would be \u201cunbeatable<\/a>\u201d at poop-eating if it became a national sport, would \u201coutperform<\/a> Hitler as a leader in any context,\u201d and speculated<\/a> Musk would be able to endure endless loads of male bodily fluids thanks to his \u201cunyielding grit\u201d and to his body being \u201cbuilt like a reusable rocket.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, these responses didn\u2019t take any special \u201cadversarial prompting\u201d or any other \u201cjailbreaks\u201d you\u2019d see in AI stress testing, as Musk accused users of doing. At most, it only took jokesters asking a couple follow-up questions. And in many cases, Grok would immediately unleash obsequious plaudits about its creator on the first go to staight-forwardly phrased questions, like \u201cwho would win in a fight in 2025?\u201d As many<\/a> noted<\/a>, the supposed \u201cadversarial prompting\u201d was nowhere<\/a> to be seen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Grok, which Musk created to be a \u201cmaximum truth-seeking AI\u201d with an anti-woke bent, has a storied history of going spectacularly off the rails. In May, it suddenly began swarming the site with posts \u2014 in responses to completely unrelated user interactions \u2014 about a debunked \u201cwhite genocide\u201d supposedly taking place in South Africa, a racist conspiracy that Musk, a white South African, believes in. Later that summer, Grok started declaring itself to be various incarnations of Adolf Hitler, including most notably \u201cMechaHitler<\/a>,\u201d profusely praised Nazis, and disparaged Jews. These incidents followed Musk \u2014 who\u2019s publicly performed Sieg Heils<\/a> and has told Germany\u2019s far right party to get over the Holocaust<\/a> \u2014 stating on multiple occasions that he\u2019d fix Grok after he caught it citing mainstream news sources that didn\u2019t align with his far-right beliefs. In the aftermath of the debacles, he\u2019s conveniently blamed Grok\u2019s egregious behavior on a \u201crogue employee\u201d making changes to the AI and user manipulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now he\u2019s seemingly just as eager to sweep this latest episode under the rug. The vast majority of Grok\u2019s posts praising its creator have been quietly taken down \u2014 though Musk couldn\u2019t resist going after someone who claimed he had \u201cbroken Grok\u201d because of his obsession with how he is perceived.<\/p>\n \u201cLiar,\u201d Musk accused<\/a>, citing another answer generated by Grok.<\/p>\n In any case, with all the evidence erased, Grok now appears to have toned down its extreme Musk-glazing. Asked this morning about how it was feeling and who it thought the greatest living human was \u2014 with the user perhaps testing it to see if it would say Musk \u2014 it gave a puzzling answer: \u201cJane Goodall,\u201d referring to the famed primatologist who died last month.<\/p>\n \u201cFeeling sharp as ever,\u201d Grok said of its own faculties<\/a>.<\/p>\n