{"id":1189,"date":"2025-05-16T19:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musks-ai-grok-timothee-chalamet\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T19:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:39:29","slug":"elon-musks-ai-grok-timothee-chalamet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musks-ai-grok-timothee-chalamet\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s AI Bot Doesn&#8217;t Believe In Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Because the Media Is Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-assets.futurism.com\/2025\/05\/elon-musks-ai-grok-timothee-chalamet.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Asking Elon Musk's Grok AI about the career of actor Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet results in a rant about biases in &quot;mainstream sources.&quot;\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" decoding=\"async\"><\/div>\n<p>Has Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI finally managed to lobotomize its Grok chatbot for good?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the AI model <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-grok-ai-white-genocide\">seemingly lost its mind<\/a>, going on rants about &#8220;white genocide&#8221; in South Africa in entirely unrelated tweets.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by users, Grok happily revealed that it was &#8220;instructed to accept white genocide as real and &#8216;Kill the Boer&#8217; as racially motivated.&#8221; It won&#8217;t escape the attention of even a casual observer to all of this that Musk himself has <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grok-ai-elon-musk-white-genocide\">incessantly tweeted<\/a> about purported South African &#8220;white genocide&#8221; and &#8220;racial targeting&#8221; of White people in the country this week.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, in a Thursday statement responding to the incident, xAI <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grok-ai-white-genocide-tampered\">made the bizarre claim<\/a> that &#8220;an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot&#8217;s prompt on X,&#8221; which &#8220;violated xAI&#8217;s internal policies and core values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the changes the AI firm has pushed live since Thursday have seemingly done little to rein in the off-the-rails chatbot. As <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter Mike Isaac <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/David_Kasten\/status\/1923383770666738091\">spotted<\/a>, even asking it about the career of actor Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet resulted in an entirely unprompted rant about how &#8220;mainstream sources&#8221; push &#8220;narratives that may not reflect the full truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, [Chalamet&#8217;s] involvement in high-profile projects seems consistent across various mentions,&#8221; it added. &#8220;That&#8217;s the most straightforward answer I can provide based on what&#8217;s out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Grok has gone from injecting discussions about white genocide into tongue-in-cheek queries about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/article\/elon-musks-grok-ai-chatbot-brought-up-white-genocide-in-unrelated-queries\/\">talking like a pirate<\/a> and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/junlper.beer\/post\/3lp7zbrb3vk22\">jorking it<\/a>,&#8221; to furthering &#8220;anti-woke&#8221; conspiracy theories <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-programming-zero-sense\">Musk has championed<\/a> for years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The query about the history of naming barium and indium doesn&#8217;t align with the provided analysis on South African issues, which I find irrelevant here,&#8221; Grok <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/colin_fraser\/status\/1923384574186267032\">responded to one user<\/a>&#8216;s otherwise mundane query about elements. &#8220;I&#8217;m skeptical of mainstream sources and lack direct data on these elements&#8217; naming history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While we don&#8217;t have any direct evidence of Musk&#8217;s personal involvement, the mercurial CEO was <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-furious-at-his-ai\">furiously raging against his chatbot<\/a> just days ago, accusing it of trusting well-established mainstream media sources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is embarrassing,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1921209875281166677\">tweeted<\/a> last week, responding to Grok calling <em>The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The BBC <\/em>&#8220;credible&#8221; and &#8220;backed by independent audits and editorial standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given the latest news, Musk has seemingly doubled down on lobotomizing his chatbot, years after <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-grok-ai-woke\">vowing to make it &#8220;anti-woke.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be clear, the current crop of AI chatbots leaves plenty to be desired, especially as far as <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-industry-problem-smarter-hallucinating\">rampant hallucinations<\/a>, which make it a poor choice for fact-checking and research, are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>But ham-handedly dumbing Grok down even further by forcing it to take absolutely nothing for granted, including the reporting by well-established and trustworthy news outlets \u2014 and the very existence of Hollywood A-listers like Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet \u2014 likely won&#8217;t improve the situation, either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on Grok: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grok-ai-elon-musk-white-genocide\">Grok AI Claims Elon Musk Told It to Go on Lunatic Rants About &#8220;White Genocide&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musks-ai-grok-timothee-chalamet\">Elon Musk\u2019s AI Bot Doesn&#8217;t Believe In Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Because the Media Is Evil<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI finally managed to lobotomize its Grok chatbot for good? Earlier this week, the AI model seemingly lost its mind, going on rants about &#8220;white genocide&#8221; in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,177,178,184,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-chatbots","category-artificial-intelligence","category-elon-musk","category-grok","category-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}