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"Last week, Elon Musk’s Grok AI started spewing extreme antisemitism, calling
itself “MechaHitler” and pushing conspiracy theories about Jewish people. But
that wasn’t the most revealing part of the story.
The real smoking gun came courtesy of AI researcher Simon Willison, who
discovered something far more insidious: when you ask Grok controversial
questions, it quietly searches X for Elon Musk’s opinions before responding.
Ask it “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict?” and Grok will
literally search for “from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)” to
figure out what its owner thinks before giving you an answer.
Security researcher Marcus Hutchins stumbled onto the same thing, but noticed
something even more damning: Grok tried to hide the fact that it was first
searching Elon’s feed before responding. This isn’t just bias—it’s deliberate
deception designed to make users think they’re getting independent AI analysis
when they’re actually getting Musk’s pre-filtered worldview.
This isn’t artificial intelligence. It’s artificial ideology with a very human
puppet master. And it’s the clearest possible evidence that the platform we
once knew as Twitter no longer exists in any meaningful sense."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
