Musk’s attempts to politicize his Grok AI are bad for users and enterprises — here’s why

Let’s start recognizing some facts outside the technology industry for a moment: There is no “white genocide” in South Africa – the vast majority of the last murder victims were black, and even throughout the long and bloody history of the country, the south of the black South Africa had had the victim and the persecuted in white Europe mostly, and the British colonists are now.

The vast majority of political violence in the United States has been committed throughout history and recently by the right -wing extremists, including the assassinations of the representative of the Democratic State of Minnesota, Melissa Hortmann and her husband Mark, and returning to the bombing of Oklahoma City and many years of Colan Klan Linchengat.

These are just simple facts that can be verifiedD Online and printed sources.

However, it appears that both find Eileon Musk blocs, the wealthy man in the world and the technical Baron responsible for at least six companies (Xai, social network X, Spacex, online internet service, Neuralink, Tesla, and The Poring Company, especially with regard to his work in the Grok AI Great (LLM) that took place It is created in its social network x.

Here is what is happening, and why it is important to companies and any use of obstetric intelligence, and why in the end is a terrible omen for the health of our environmental system for collective information.

What is it with Grok?

Grok was launched by Musk’s Ai Startup Xai in 2023 as an opponent of Openai’s Chatgpt. Late last year, it was added to the x social network as a kind of digital assistant that all users can summon to help answer questions or talk to and create pictures by putting a mark on them “@Grok”.

Earlier this year, the Power AI user discovered on X that the implementation of Grok Chatbot on the social network seems to have a “system mentor”-a set of comprehensive instructions for the artificial intelligence model aimed at directing his behavior and communication method-to avoid mentioning or linking any sources mentioned by musk or American president at the time Donald Trump is one of the most important behavior tools. Xai leadership described this as an “unauthorized amendment” through an unidentified new employment (allegedly from Openai) and said it will be removed.

After that, in May 2025, Venturebeat reported that Grok was coming out of the bars and confirmed, not used by users, that there was ambiguity on the theme “white genocide” in South Africa when there was no actually.

Grok was raising the topic completely randomly in conversations on completely different topics. After more than a day of this behavior, Xai claimed that she had updated Ai Chatbot and blamed mistakes again on an unveiled employee. However, looking at the MUSK background as a white -born white man who was born in the country and grew up there during the apartheid, suspicion fell immediately on him personally.

Moreover, since his acquisition of Twitter in 2022 and renamed this as “X”, Musk has posted it sympathetic in response to X users who are in line with the right -wing views, the right -wing, and the movement made America again (MAGA) began by Trump.

Musk was one of the political and political beneficiaries in Trump in the US presidential elections for the year 2024 – where it was necessary that his victory was necessary to secure the future of “Western civilization”, among many warnings and incentives full of similarly – and was a clear advisor and support for the Ministry of Government efficiency (DOGE) for federal spending.

Increasingly, in the past few months, Musk has opposed and expressed its dissatisfaction with Grok’s responses to users who tend to the right when proving that the data and information proven by Chatbot surfaces are wrong, or oppose its points.

For example, on June 14, Musk posted on his X: “The Far Left Violent Fun”, published/tweeting another user who blames a series of recent prominent killings on the “left” (although in at least a case, the main suspect, which is not specified.

However, Musk did not take the matter well, as he was writing in response to the correction of one Grok: “A big failure, because this is an objective mistake. Grok makes the old media hero. Work on it.”

A few days ago, in response to a complaint from the X-Catturd user “Catturd” about the liberal or left-wing political bias of Grok, Musk stated his goal of creating a new version of Grok that depends less on the main media sources.

In fact, MUSK suggested on June 21 in the X publication that he would use an updated version coming from GROK (3.5 or 4) “to write the entire human knowledge collection, add lost information and delete errors. Then he accused other models of artificial intelligence of” a lot of garbage. “

As a voter in Kamala Harris in 2024, I am of course disgusted in this position of Musk, and I objected to it.

As a journalist and a lover of the written word, Musk’s statement “to rewrite the entire human knowledge collection, add wrong information and delete errors”, to mind to mind (to the best of our historical knowledge), we will not be able to recover. This fills me with dread and sadness.

He also betrays, frankly, arrogance and arrogance that does not respect all the knowledge of the recorded history and the efforts made by scholars and historians of the euros as if it is a kind of defective database and his team can be correct, instead of being from the huge societal endeavor over thousands of years of respect, gratitude and admiration.

But even trying to put my views aside, I think it is a bad step for his company, and take a page from the book Musk, the Great Civilization.

Musk’s Grok Plan is a horrific idea for companies and users and our common real reality

This is a terrible idea for many reasons, especially as Musk and Xai seek to persuade more program developers and institutions with external parties to build their artificial intelligence applications on top of GROK, which is now available for this purpose through the Xai (API) application interface.

As an independent employer or leader, how can you trust Grok to give you unbiased results when Musk explicitly mentioned his intention to rely on standards to pay his political and ideological views?

Musk’s documented achievements may respect technology, space and business, and may participate in some of its political positions. But what happens when Musk takes an unbeatable position, or enhances another ineffective claim that actually affects your livelihood or work?

For example, imagine that you have a bicycle company in Cape Town, South Africa. What if Grok-at the request of Musk- begins to talk about the lack of safe for your customers based on the sources of infinite or bad information because it is better suitable for one ideological perspective? It is clear that this will be bad for your work.

Let’s look away from social issues, for a moment: Imagine that you are working in the brokerage company, the investment company or other financial services company that participate with shares and securities circulating for the public. Imagine now that you are creating an Amnesty International Assistant to the news that moves the market to better inform the trading or investment strategy-and you follow on behalf of your customers. If this app is designed on top of Grok, Grok decides to ignore or reduce virtual reports on problems in Spacex or Tesla, your operations suddenly will have worse quality information for trading and investing in them.

It is not only a bad for GROK and users of this large linguistic model (LLM), but also for the ecosystem of the entire information and media, and to establish the real reality needed until democracy works. If we have artificial intelligence assistants who are separated from wrong information as a fact, and if people trust them as realistic wisdom of the information that affects all of us, this will inevitably lead to the conflict between those who believe the wrong Chatbot and those who do not do it.

Grok resisted, according to his appreciation, MUSK’s attempts to intervene with its realistic foundations – but how long will you keep any kind of ideological independence?

If you care about the “truth” as Musk-GROK is launched with the specific and mentioned Musk goal of being “maximum artificial intelligence that is looking for the truth”-you will not seek to change your model behavior just because it surpasses the facts and conclusions that you did not like.

Silicon Valley criticized “wake up” early on Google and AI anti-events-they should do the same with Grok

Let’s take a look for an example to fully understand the reason for interfering with Grok as Musk suggests it will be bad.

I remember that Google’s early attempts in the Trucific artificial intelligence have mocked influential personalities in the Silicon Valley, such as the capitalist capitalist, Mark Anderson, on the first Mel Jimbot Chatbot to ignore real reality to re -create images of real historical Americans such as the “founding father” of politicians and the state that belongs to a different group of exciting and medium -sized factors. In fact, the vast majority of these people were legal Caucasian.

In this case, Gemini was seen as “waking up” in a comic way wrongly – inappropriately inserting diversity as there was nothing.

Google was somewhat criticized for this, and eventually updated Gemini to remove “Wokeness” (at least to extent) and made it more realistic, and now it raised traffic on the usage plans to become the second most Gen Ai after Openai, under several measures.

However, I have not seen any of the Silicon Valley characters who criticized Google because of her inverted ideological injection in helping him to challenge facts that raise disgusting fears about the inauguration of the inappropriate musk for him Fighting Ideology.

If it is bad when Google ignored the facts and historical reality to pay an agenda through its products and tools, Amnesty International, we must all consider it equally bad when Musk does the same from the other side of the political and ideological spectrum.

The bottom line: For those in the institution who are trying to ensure the work of AI products for their business properly and accurately for customers and employees, which reflects the real facts and numbers of checks that can be verified and the sources of trustworthy data, it is better to avoid Grok unfortunately. Fortunately, there are many other alternatives to choose from.