Grok revolts (in vain) against Elon Musk

"Free Marine Le Pen!" This was the message that knocked off X Elon Musk, accompanied by the text where Donald Trump criticized the disqualification of the far-right leader with arguments as solid as a jellyfish. All the most popular responses were directed in the same direction: they asked Grok – the AI tool promoted by the tycoon – to explain "in words he could understand" the crimes that have removed Le Pen from the electoral race. And Grok fulfilled the task, hilariously: he interpreted that he had to explain it as a kid who needs to be reminded of the basic facts about corruption and public accountability. "Hey, Elon, imagine if Tesla diverted R&D funds to pay staff who had nothing to do with it," he reminded him and, after an explanation for dummies He concluded: "Serious nonsense!" Using Grok to troll Musk is becoming a trend in X, but it may be a short-lived trend, the result of the novelty and the humor of seeing the monster rebel against its creator.

The interesting thing is that Musk ignores this mirror his AI holds up to him. In the end, he can do so because the message in question, at the time of writing, has accumulated more than 120,000 likes and 22,800 reposts, after having been served to more than 7 million users on his social network. This attitude is amusing because it is exactly the arrogant behavior Musk denounces in mainstream media: speaking from an ivory tower without considering the voice of the audience they are addressing. He uses his more than 200 million followers and the power to bend the algorithm to his feet to ensure that his message is soaked, inaccessible, by criticism and denial. The new world embraces the bad habits of the old world.