Has Grok lost its mind and mind-melded with its owner?
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Claims from this post (4)
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Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“If he couldn’t bend Grok to his will then, he has presumably continued to try.”
What we tested: If Elon Musk could not bend Grok to his will back in February 2025, he has presumably kept trying to do so since then.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
“And then his AI, Grok, would not shut up about white genocide, even when it is completely irrelevant.”
What we tested: In May 2025 Grok repeatedly brought up 'white genocide' in South Africa even in replies where it was completely irrelevant.
What happened: The report explicitly establishes repetition and irrelevance. It also describes a question about a baseball player's salary receiving a response about white genocide in South Africa. (TechCrunch, )
Assessment: SupportedSaid
“But the writing is on the wall. Sooner or later, powerful people are going to use LLMs to shape your ideas.”
What we tested: Sooner or later, powerful people are going to use LLMs to shape people's ideas.
What happened: OpenAI traced comments generated with ChatGPT by the Rybar-linked operation to published Telegram posts promoting an allegation of German interference in Moldova. The report describes August in its account of activity preceding February 2026; the year is inferred as 2025. (OpenAI, )
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“Should we be worried? Hell, yeah.”
What we tested: People should be worried, emphatically so, about powerful people using LLMs to shape their ideas.