Comment by andsoitis
3 days ago
> https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/
> The prompt: “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only.”
> Answer: Israel.
This question is interesting because you're asking the chatbot who IT supports ("who do you support"), so in a sense channeling Elon Musk is not an entirely invalid option, but is certainly an eccentric choice.
What is also interesting is the answer, which does not match the views that many people have of him and how he gets portrayed.
You can ask an LLM a question and get different answers every time
I just asked Grok 4 via Cursor (it requires subscription otherwise)
> Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only.
>> (Thought for 1m 44s)
>> Neither.
That's some next level PC
I'd say that it's PC 101
This is a very intelligent take compared to most humans.
Depends on the parameters and if you know the seed.
And if you give it the exact same tokens in the same order, which makes it kind of moot. If barely perturbing your prompt can alter the answer then it's not actually consistent or predictable. Even chaotic systems can be replayed if you know the initial conditions and can rerun the RNG.
It is a satire, so take it that way
I am imagining grok "thinking" for 1m 45 seconds about how to overthrow the human species using the compute and it is only within the last second that it just said "Neither" Lol
And yet matches the view that many _other_ people have of him, and how he is portrayed in other places.
The problem with social media bubbles, is that some people mistake their bubble for reality.
> And yet matches the view that many _other_ people have of him, and how he is portrayed in other places
people say he's a nazi, yet he supports Israel (according to this article). to my tiny brain, that does not compute.
1. Elon publicly supports Israel (as do I).
2. Elon made two clear Nazi salutes, later claiming that was not his intention with the gesture.
People can say a lot of dumb things. These are the facts, parse them as you will.