Comment by russellbeattie

The assumption is that the LLM is the only process involved here. It may well be that Grok's AI implementation is totally neutral. However, it still has to connect to X to search via some API, and that query could easily be modified to prioritize Musk's tweets. Even if it's not manipulated on Grok's end, it's well known that Elon has artificially ranked his X account higher in their system. So if Grok produces some innocuous parameters where it asks for the top ranked answers, it would essentially do the same thing.