Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions

“Musk’s deliberate efforts to mold Grok into a challenger of what he considers the tech industry’s “woke” orthodoxy on race, gender and politics has repeatedly got the [chatbot into trouble](https://apnews.com/article/grok-ai-south-africa-64ce5f240061ca0b88d5af4c424e1f3b), most recently when it [spouted antisemitic tropes](https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-chatbot-ai-grok-d745a7e3d0a7339a1159dc6c42475e29), praised Adolf Hitler and made other hateful commentary to users of Musk’s X social media platform just days before Grok 4’s launch.

But its tendency to consult with Musk’s opinions appears to be a different problem.

“It’s extraordinary,” said Simon Willison, an independent AI researcher who’s been testing the tool. “You can ask it a sort of pointed question that is around controversial topics. And then you can watch it literally do a search on X for what Elon Musk said about this, as part of its research into how it should reply.”

One example widely shared on social media — and which Willison duplicated — asked Grok to comment on the conflict in the Middle East. The prompted question made no mention of Musk, but the chatbot looked for his guidance anyway.

“Elon Musk’s stance could provide context, given his influence,” the chatbot told Willison, according to a video of the interaction. “Currently looking at his views to see if they guide the answer.”

I wonder if the person questioning Grok had been previously asking Grok to check Musks opinion.? So it included musks opinion in future queries..

I can’t seem to get it to check for musk’s opinion…

i love thay he is speedrunning all the ethical concerns with AI so that we can deal with them earlier

> Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views

So, still racist and antisemitic AF. Got it.