Comment by buu700
18 hours ago
Anyone who hasn't used Grok might be surprised to learn that it isn't shy about disagreeing with Elon on plenty of topics, political or otherwise. Any insinuation to the contrary seems to be pure marketing spin on his part.
Grok is often absurdly competent compared to other SOTA models, definitely not a tool I'd write off over its supposed political leanings. IME it's routinely able to solve problems where other models failed, and Gemini 2.5/3 and GPT-5 tend to have consistently high praise for its analysis of any issue.
That's as far as the base model/chatbot is concerned, at least. I'm less familiar with the X bot's work.
it's so wildly inconsistent you can't build on top of it with reliability. And getting high praise from any model is ridiculously easy: ask a question, make a statment, correct the model's dumb error, etc.
It's easy for us as humans to correct dumb mistakes made by AI. It's less easy for AI to correct mistakes made by AI.
What's remarkable on Grok's part is when it spends five minutes churning through a few thousand lines of code (not the whole codebase, just the relevant files) and correctly arrives at the correct root cause of a complex bug in one shot.
Grok as a model may or may not be uniquely amazing per se, but the service's eagerness to throw compute at problems that genuinely demand it is a superpower that makes at least makes it uniquely amazing in practice. By comparison, even Gemini 3 often returns lazy/shallow/wrong responses (and I say that as a regular user of Gemini).
Two things can be true at the same time. Yes, Grok will say mean things about Musk but it'll also say ridiculously good things
I think what's more interesting is that most of the tweets here [0] have been removed. I'm not going to call conspiracy because I've seen some of them. Probably removed because going viral isn't always a good thing...
[0] https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-bette...
They can be, but in this case they don't seem to be. Here's Grok's response to that prompt (again, the actual chatbot service, not the X account): https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_2b46259a-5291-458e-9b85-0c....
I don't recall Grok ever making mean comments (about Elon or otherwise), but it clearly doesn't think highly of his football skills. The chain of thought shows that it interpreted the question as a joke.
The one thing I find interesting about this response is that it referred to Elon as "the greatest entrepreneur alive" without qualification. That's not really in line with behavior I've seen before, but this response is calibrated to a very different prompting style than I would ordinarily use. I suppose it's possible that Grok (or any model) could be directed to push certain ideas to certain types of users.
Sure, but they also update the models, especially when things like this go viral. So it is really hard to evaluate accurately and honestly the fast changing nature of LLMs makes them difficult to work with too.
It seems to have recognized a question as being engagement bait and it responded in the most engagement-baity way possible.