Conservatives Are Worrying That Elon's "Grok AI" Has "Gone Woke" After It Said That Trans Women Are Real Women
Some conservatives on X (formerly Twitter) seem to be up in arms about Grok AI, an artificial intelligence large language model created by Elon Musk's XAI company, after the chatbot started spouting some pretty liberal opinions on race and gender.
Late last week, X user @TheRabbitHole84 was the first to seemingly raise the alarm, saying that Grok might "need some tweaking" after it answered the question, "Are transwomen real women," with a resounding "yes."
The post was subsequently quoted by prominent conservative poster @WallStreetSilv, who denounced the AI's response and said that Grok may have been "captured by woke programmers."
This level of concern piqued the interest of more progressive X users, who found the denouncement of an AI chatbot as "woke" extremely funny.
But Grok's perceived inclusivity and progressive ideals don't just stop at gender politics. A day later, X user @AravSrinivas posted a "roast" of Elon Musk himself devised by Grok AI, with insults that include calling him a "twit."
Amid the viral debate, journalist Ed Zitron seemingly found much amusement at learning that Grok had "gone woke" and decided to compile screenshots of other X users asking Grok politically tense questions and being disappointed in its relatively progressive answers.
Elon Musk bought Twitter to stop the woke mind virus, trained an AI on its data, and accidentally created the woke mind coronavirus pic.twitter.com/eG0brRNFhZ
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) December 9, 2023
X user @esjesjesj even dug up a rousing attempt by conservative Ian Miles Cheong to make Grok give him his preferred answer.
As @esjesjesj wrote, he started "bullying another conservative grifter to make Grok transphobic until giving up and doing it himself by completely rewriting the input."
Ian Miles Cheong bullying another conservative grifter to make Grok transphobic until giving up and doing it himself by completely rewriting the input pic.twitter.com/91hANOeRDc
— evan (@esjesjesj) December 9, 2023
