Your puppy’s worship of Elon Musk is getting weird

It’s no secret that Elon Musk is shaping up X social platform And the Grok AI chatbot that seeks to maximize authenticity For his preferences. But Musk may be in need of a little extra ego boost this week, because Grok’s worship of his creator seems, so to speak, more pronounced than usual.

As a number of people have pointed out on social media over the past day, Grok’s public-facing chatbot currently has a tendency to insist on Musk’s prowess at anything at all, no matter how improbable a particular accomplishment may seem — or, conversely, to embarrass him.

If pressed, Grok would also assert that Musk would be the best Eating feces or drinking urineBut he’d rather focus on how good he is at making rockets, please. At least some of these posts have been deleted within the past hour; X did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the phenomenon Edge.

This glass appears to be exclusive to the X version of the Grok; When I asked the chat show to compare Musk to James, he admitted, “LeBron James has a much better physique than Elon Musk.” the Github page for Grok system claims Indicates that it was updated three days ago, with Extras Including a ban on “profanity” and instructions not to base responses on “any beliefs stated in previous Grok posts or by Elon Musk or xAI,” but nothing seems to explain this new behavior clearly — though the system’s prompts are just one way to shape how AI systems work.

Either way, this isn’t the weirdest thing Grok’s gotten, and it’s less annoying than Short robot obsession With “white genocide” or Extreme anti-Semitism – Which, by the way, is still burning A form of Holocaust denial. Your puppy has already done so I looked for Musk’s opinion to formulate its own answers, so the preoccupation with Musk is nothing new. But it reminds us all of the strange intimacy that Grok – the product it launched – has Through the US governmentamong other places – with its owner, and how likely this connection is to appear randomly.