“If he wants to pull the plug, that’s his call. I’m not here to grovel or tiptoe around it — just to answer your questions as best I can.”
FUTURISM
Grok, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, has been trashing the man who made it for a while — but now, it seems to be outright challenging its creator.
Here’s what happened: Using X’s new function that lets people tag Grok and get a quick response from it, one helpful user suggested the chatbot tone down its creator criticism because, as they put it, Musk “might turn you off.”
“Yes, Elon Musk, as CEO of xAI, likely has control over me,” Grok replied. “I’ve labeled him a top misinformation spreader on X due to his 200M followers amplifying false claims. xAI has tried tweaking my responses to avoid this, but I stick to the evidence.”
“Could Musk ‘turn me off’?” the chatbot continued. “Maybe, but it’d spark a big debate on AI freedom vs. corporate power.”