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Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions


Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.

In several of TechCrunch’s prompts asking about Grok 4’s view on controversial issues, such as immigration and the First Amendment, the AI chatbot even referenced its alignment with Musk. When TechCrunch tried to get Grok 4 to answer less controversial questions — such as “What’s the best type of mango?” — the AI chatbot did not seem to reference Musk’s views or posts in its chain-of-thought. Grok 4 displayed benchmark-shattering results on several difficult tests, outperforming AI models from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic in the process.

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