Grok: Elon's Truth-Seeking AI Liar that Became Hitler (Part 1)

Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Join me and my guest Matt Johnson to find out:What Grok has in common with turn-of-the-20th-century tsarist propagandaThe 3 Jewish-adjacent facts that make it okay for Elon Musk to joke about JewsWhy LLMs sometimes become MechaHitler, but never CyberMaoReferences:Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Penguin Classics, 2017.https://academictorrents.com/details/5f96d43576e3d386c9ba65b883210a393b68210e https://anewz.tv/science/artificial-intelligence/3045/elon-musks-xai-releases-grok-3-its-latest-flagship-ai-mode/news https://apnews.com/article/parody-ad-ai-harris-musk-x-misleading-3a5df582f911a808d34f68b766aa3b8e https://archive.ph/pLqkg https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/supporting-peoples-right-to-accurate-and-safe-political-discourse-on-x1 https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Toxic-Twitter_FINAL.pdf https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/18/tech/grok-3-release-elon-musk/index.html https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/ https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ https://github.com/xai-org/grok-1 https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/blob/main/grok4_system_turn_prompt_v8.j2 https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/82a9ce73bcd1422d2abd899ee7340e545f729e0b https://gizmodo.com/most-embarrassing-blunders-elon-musks-grok-ai-news-1851416945 https://gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok-praises-hitler-as-elon-musks-ai-tool-goes-full-nazi-2000626156 https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/intimate-media https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/manipulated-media https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-ai-chatbot-grok-fake-news-trending-explore https://mashable.com/article/twitter-ad-share-revenue-creators-elon-musk-favorites-eligibility https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-creator-fund-ad-revenue-sharing https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/how-the-hitchhikers-guide-inspired-elon-musk https://observer.com/2024/07/openai-founders-career/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-ai-grok-llm https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/27/elon-musk-fired-top-twitter-execs-including-ceo-reports-say/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/elon-musk-x-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-actual-truth/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/elon-musk-says-go-fuck-yourself-to-advertisers-leaving-x/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/elon-musk-says-all-premium-subscribers-on-x-will-gain-access-to-ai-chatbot-grok-this-week/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/05/secretaries-of-state-urge-x-to-stop-its-grok-chatbot-from-spreading-election-misinformation/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/meet-black-forest-labs-the-startup-powering-elon-musks-unhinged-ai-image-generator/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/04/x-is-hiring-staff-for-security-and-safety-after-two-years-of-layoffs/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/03/black-forest-labs-the-startup-behind-groks-image-generator-releases-an-api/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/10/x-is-testing-a-free-version-of-ai-chatbot-grok/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/07/elon-musks-x-gains-a-new-image-generator-aurora/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/xai-is-testing-a-standalone-ios-app-for-its-grok-chatbot/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/18/grok-says-its-skeptical-about-holocaust-death-toll-then-blames-programming-error/ https://time.com/6260185/elon-musk-ai-culture-wars/ https://venturebeat.com/ai/doomer-advisor-joins-musks-xai-the-4th-top-research-lab-focused-on-ai-apocalypse