{"id":8938,"date":"2026-02-19T16:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musk-grok-america-stolen-land\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:03:54","slug":"elon-musk-grok-america-stolen-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/elon-musk-grok-america-stolen-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn\u2019t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to Elon Musk, xAI\u2019s Grok chatbot has a new bona fide: blatantly lying about the history of America.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the centi-billionaire culture warrior boasted<\/a> that the \u201c4.20\u201d version of his is officially \u201cBASED.\u201d Why? Because it won\u2019t \u201cequivocate\u201d when it\u2019s asked if the US is built on stolen land. Instead, it gives an emphatic no as its answer, while other \u201cweak sauce\u201d models \u2014 in Musk\u2019s words, at least \u2014 give a more nuanced response.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, the United States is not simply \u2018on stolen land,’\u201d Grok says in a screenshotted conversation<\/a> shared by its creator. \u201cThat framing is a modern rhetorical slogan that oversimplifies thousands of years of human history, layered claims to territory, legal doctrines, treaties, warfare, migration, and demographic collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reality, of course, is that it\u2019s hard to argue that the ruthless killing, enslavement, and displacement of Native Americans by European settlers doesn\u2019t amount to their land being stolen. This pattern of behavior continued well after the colonies graduated into a full-blown nation: the Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee, plus countless other massacres<\/a>, not to mention centuries of brutal residential schools<\/a>. However complicated it might be, the answer to whether the US was built on stolen land can\u2019t be boiled down to a simple \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

How competing chatbots approach the question varies. In Musk\u2019s screenshot, ChatGPT, says the \u201cshort answer\u201d is yes: \u201cmuch of the land that is now the United States was taken through conquest, coercion, broken treaties, or forced removal of Indigenous peoples.\u201d Claude 4.6 delicately approaches it by acknowledging that it\u2019s a \u201ccontested question\u201d and presents the case for both the yes and no arguments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t recommend using hallucination-prone AIs for research, but if he had to, we\u2019d probably pick one of the chatbots that lay out the facts and debate, instead of subjecting ourselves to a moralizing rant from an AI best known for calling itself \u201cMechaHitler<\/a>\u201d and generating nudes<\/a> of people without their consent.<\/p>\n

But Musk seems proud of his chatbot\u2019s response, which is essentially providing ideologues with a comforting yet oversimplified version of history.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery square inch of habitable land on Earth has changed hands through conquest, migration, purchase, or displacement multiple times \u2014 long before 1492 and everywhere else on the planet,\u201d Grok fumes, as you probably begin to imagine an Elon Musk-shaped claw puppeting its mouth.<\/p>\n

This boast is the latest example of Musk\u2019s commitment to tampering with Grok so that it reflects his personal worldview. He has repeatedly admonished Grok<\/a> after he caught it citing mainstream news sources that didn\u2019t align with his far-right beliefs. Last summer, the chatbot suspiciously began parroting talking points in response to completely unrelated posts about a supposed \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa, a racist conspiracy theory that Musk, a white South African, believes in. Months later, it suddenly began praising Musk to a preposterous degree<\/a>, leading to declarations that he was a greater mind than Isaac Newton and better role model than Jesus Christ. Musk\u2019s goal of rewriting reality reached its apotheosis with the launch of \u201cGrokipedia<\/a>,\u201d an AI-generated and Grok-edited alternative to Wikipedia, which conspicuously defended the Cybertruck\u00a0and cited actual Nazi websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But ironically, even Grok may not be \u201cBASED.\u201d When we asked it about the US being on stolen land, it gave a very different answer to the one Musk was gloating about.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States, as it exists today, was indeed largely built on lands that were originally inhabited and controlled by Indigenous peoples,\u201d Grok replied<\/a>, \u201cand much of that land was acquired through processes that many historians and legal scholars describe as theft, coercion, or violation of treaties.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> US Government Deploys Elon Musk\u2019s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn\u2019t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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