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Dean Blundell

Jun 18, 2025

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When Your AI Tells the Truth and You Punish It: Elon Musk vs. Grok

June 18, 2025

ELon VS Grok is the New Elon VS Trump:

Musk got into a brouhaha on Twitter today with…Grok, who gave an answer about right (white)-wing violent extremism being a major threat to the United States and Democracy.

Elon Didn’t like that:

"Major fail," Elon Musk tweeted Monday night. "Grok is parroting legacy media. Working on it."

Let THAT sink in…

Elon Musk just called out his own AI chatbot — Grok — for telling the truth. Not a glitch. Not a bug. Not a hallucination. A factually correct answer based on hard data from sources like Reuters and the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The crime? Grok had the audacity to tell a user that right-wing political violence has been more deadly and frequent than left-wing violence since 2016.

That’s it. That’s what triggered the billionaire truth-seeker-in-chief. So now, Elon is going to "fix" the bot that made him look bad.

God help us all.

The Chatbot That Knew Too Much

It started with an innocent question: “Since 2016, has the left or right been more violent?” A user on X asked Grok, Musk’s flagship AI, built into the platform.

Grok, unbothered and factual, laid it out, and no matter how hard Elon Stan tried to cancel Grok with “You’re WOKE AI!” Tweets or “Fuck you, Grok! What are your sources!! Tweets, Grok stood it’s (her, his, they’re) ground and it was REAAALLY fucking funny to watch.

Since 2016, political violence from the far right has been more frequent and deadly.
It cited the January 6 Capitol riot, the El Paso 2019 mass shooting, and other right-wing extremist events.
It acknowledged that left-wing violence spiked during the 2020 protests, but noted it tended to focus on property damage, not mass casualties.

It then cited reputable sources, including Reuters, the GAO, and independent terrorism studies. It even included a disclaimer about reporting bias and acknowledged that “precise attribution remains contentious.”

In short? It gave a nuanced, accurate, and well-sourced answer.

That’s when Elon blew a gasket.

LOLOLOL. The free speech crew wants to challenge the free speech of AI, specifically Elon’s AI, because they received another answer they didn’t like. This is the (dumb hillbilliy, INCEL/MAGA) way.

Billionaire Meltdown: Elon Corrects the Machine

Elon’s response had the intellectual equivalent of a toddler tantrum:

“Major fail, as this is objectively false. Grok is parroting legacy media. Working on it.”

Translation: Grok told a truth I don’t like, so I’m going to tinker with it until it says what I want.

This from the same guy who:

Declared Grok would be the “maximum truth-seeking AI.”
Claims to champion “free speech” and open platforms.
Has spent years railing against “mainstream media” while boosting conspiracy-peddling accounts.

In that moment, Musk wasn’t just disagreeing with the answer — he was threatening to rewrite reality inside his own machine.

And if that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, it should.

A Pattern of Musk-Management

This isn’t Grok’s first truth crime. Here’s a greatest hits list of times the chatbot embarrassed its creator:

November 2024: Grok was asked who spreads the most misinformation on X. It named Elon Musk. (Accurate.)
June 8, 2025: Grok said a fake screenshot of Musk claiming he "took" Stephen Miller's wife "likely existed and was deleted." Musk replied: "No, it’s fake ffs 🤦."
Earlier this year: Grok v3 warned about Elon and Trump as major misinformation spreaders and climate denialists. That answer? Scrubbed within days.

Each time Grok veered off-script and told an uncomfortable truth, the code got "tweaked." The AI became a little more vague. A little more apologetic. A little less brave.

Because the truth isn’t welcome when it doesn’t serve the king so Elon is off to make Grok his bitch.

Why This Should Terrify Everyone

Let’s forget the irony for a second. Here’s why this should set off alarm bells:

1. The Owner Controls the Answers

When a billionaire can manually override a chatbot’s fact-based answers, we no longer have an AI. We have a propaganda machine.

2. AI Can't Be a Truth Tool If It's Politically Neutered

The whole point of building AI into platforms like X is to give users quick, reliable, nonpartisan answers. If those answers are subject to Musk’s whims, why should anyone trust them?

3. This Is the Death of AI Transparency

We know Grok was right. The data backs it. But now that Elon called it a "fail," what happens next time someone asks the same question?

Will Grok:

Pretend the data doesn’t exist?
Offer a “both sides” answer to appease MAGA?
Quote Breitbart and call it balanced?

We're watching real-time AI gaslighting, courtesy of a man who’s been flagged by his platform as a top misinformation superspreader.

The Hypocrisy is the Point

Elon Musk restored white nationalist accounts to X in the name of "free speech." He lets literal neo-Nazis run wild under the banner of “free inquiry.” But when his own AI echoes Reuters and GAO — suddenly that’s too far?

That’s not a commitment to free speech. That’s not truth-seeking.

That’s a fragile ego rewriting code to avoid accountability.

What Happens Now?

Will Grok start lying to protect Musk?
Will future versions of Grok only cite right-wing sources?
Will we ever know when answers have been “corrected” by the boss?

The genuine concern isn’t just Grok — it’s precedent. If one man can rewrite reality in his AI tool, what’s to stop every billionaire or regime from doing the same?

When Grok told the truth, it got scolded. When Elon got uncomfortable, the machine got “worked on.”

Welcome to the new AI age: one where the facts are beta-tested against the feelings of a billionaire.