Grok is looking for Elon Musk’s opinion before answering difficult questions

The latest version of Grok – called “”Searching for the truth to the maximum extentAmnesty International for owner Elon Musk – answers controversial questions by first searching for what Musk said in this regard. numerous Reports show this Grok will specifically search for Elon Musk’s position via the web and its participation on social media when asking questions about topics such as Israel and Palestine, American immigration, and abortion. It is not clear whether or not this is.

According to the screen registration Posted by Data World Jeremy Howard“He is thinking about Elon Musk’s opinions” when he was asked about his opinion on Israel and Palestine. Howard says 54 of 64 quotes presented by Grok for this question revolves around Musk. Techcrunch Reports I managed to repeat this, while seeing the same thing when asking about the laws of miscarriage and the policy of American immigration.

These testimonies are referred to in the GROK thought series – the process in which “artificial intelligence models are considered in a loud voice” to answer the complex questions by dividing them into small steps, and withdrawing different source materials to help form the response. Grok usually tends to information from a variety of sources to answer worldly queries, but for controversial topics – something Chatbot was recently in hot water – Grok seems to have a bias towards compatibility with MUSK’s personal opinions.

Programmer Simon Willeson Reports that this behavior may not have been deliberately coded in Groke. The lines that Willeson pulled from GROK 4, instructions to Chatbot to “search for distribution of sources representing all parties/stakeholders” when a controversial question is asked. It requires searching for the web or X. GROK also warns of “assuming the personal views obtained from the media,” Explain its aversion to use it.

“The best of me is that Grok” knows that “Grok 4 Build by Xai”, and knows that Elon Musk owns Xai, so in the circumstances in which the opinion is required that the thinking process is often decided to know what Elon thinks about. “