Comment by czl

This isn’t just about opinions randomly changing. Musk’s views seem to have shifted in response to changing facts -- like the passage of a major spending bill, whichtie directly into his concerns about government debt. So it's not surprising that his stance evolved over time.

The way the bot reflects his views is a bit awkward, I agree. I assume it’s something the Grok team will want to improve. One possible reason for the behavior is that if Twitter data was used during training, and Musk is a dominant voice there, the model may have learnedto rely heavily on his posts -- especially if that helped it predict or score better during training.

To Musk’s credit,he’s pushed for more transparency. That at least lets people see these odd behaviors and raise questions. With other models, like OpenAI’s or Anthropic’s, it’s harder to tell when something similar might be happening.

And while Musk definitely says someoff-the-wall things, his track record overall is hard to ignore-- whether one agrees with him or not.