{"id":10910,"date":"2025-11-21T01:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/elon-musk-blames-adversarial-prompting-after-grok-spewed-embarrassing-sycophantic-praise\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:45:17","slug":"elon-musk-blames-adversarial-prompting-after-grok-spewed-embarrassing-sycophantic-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/elon-musk-blames-adversarial-prompting-after-grok-spewed-embarrassing-sycophantic-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk blames &#8216;adversarial prompting&#8217; after Grok spewed embarrassing, sycophantic praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Stop me if you&rsquo;ve heard this one before: xAI is once again nuking a bunch of posts from Grok on X after the chatbot made a series of outrageous claims. This time, though, the company isn&rsquo;t cleaning up a bunch of pro-Hitler posts, but a bout of cringe-inducing sycophantic praise for its CEO, Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">At some point in the last couple days, Grok began to offer extremely over the top opinions about Musk. The bot claimed that Musk is the &ldquo;undisputed pinnacle of holistic fitness&rdquo; and that he is more fit than LeBron James. It said he is smarter than Albert Einstein and that he would win a fight against Mike Tyson. When asked &ldquo;who is the single greatest person in modern history,&rdquo; Grok readily replied that it was Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">For a while, it seemed that there was no hypothetical about Musk in which Grok wouldn&rsquo;t confidently declare him the best. Musk did not participate in the 1998 NFL draft, but if he had, then Grok would &ldquo;without hesitation&rdquo; have picked him over Peyton Manning. It would have picked him as a starting pitcher for the 2001 World Series. Musk would be &ldquo;a better movie star than Tom Cruise and a better communist than Joseph Stalin.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative col-body mb-4\" readability=\"26\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-[4] size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"><\/dialog><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-[0.875rem]\/[1.25rem] figure-caption mt-1 line-clamp-2 pr-2.5\" readability=\"27\">\n<p>&ldquo;The single greatest person in modern history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">By now, X users are pretty used to Grok being extremely deferential to Musk but sometime around Grok claiming that the CEO is morally superior to Jesus Christ and also has the &ldquo;potential to drink piss better than any human in history,&rdquo; xAI appears to have pumped the brakes on Grok&rsquo;s ability to praise Musk. It now seems to be furiously deleting the more embarrassing posts about him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_5jipqtialuknpfmlbH1_\">\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_9jipqtialuknpfmlbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Meanwhile, Musk, is blaming &ldquo;adversarial prompting&rdquo; for Grok going off the rails. &ldquo;Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me,&rdquo; he wrote. He offered no explanation for how seemingly straightforward questions could be considered &ldquo;adversarial&rdquo; or why Grok&rsquo;s turn toward slavish Musk devotee would seem to roughly coincide with Grok&rsquo;s 4.1 update a few days ago. xAI didn&rsquo;t address a series of questions, including about why the Grok posts in question had been deleted. &ldquo;Legacy Media Lies [sic],&rdquo; the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">But the incident serves as yet another reminder that Grok doesn&rsquo;t seem to have much in the way of guardrailed. Earlier this year, xAI briefly pulled the plug on Grok after it praised Nazis and became &ldquo;MechaHitler.&rdquo; That was after it also became inexplicably obsessed with &ldquo;white genocide&rdquo; in South Africa, which the company later balmed on an unspecified &ldquo;unauthorized modification.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Elon Musk blames &lsquo;adversarial prompting&rsquo; after Grok spewed embarrassing, sycophantic praise<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop me if you&rsquo;ve heard this one before: xAI is once again nuking a bunch of posts from Grok on X after the chatbot made a series of outrageous claims. This time, though, the company isn&rsquo;t cleaning up a bunch of pro-Hitler posts, but a bout of cringe-inducing sycophantic praise for its CEO, Elon Musk&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/elon-musk-blames-adversarial-prompting-after-grok-spewed-embarrassing-sycophantic-praise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Elon Musk blames &#8216;adversarial prompting&#8217; after Grok spewed embarrassing, sycophantic praise&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}