It seems that Grok 4 knows who is the boss.
The latest version of AI chatbot has favorite sources for some hot topic issues, quoting the creator Elon Musk My views when asked about immigration and conflict in the Middle East.
Business Insider was able to replicate the responses that X users share. Grok4 reasoning showed that it cites Musk's X post.
Glock, who Musk calls “seek the greatest truth,” cited the billionaire's views in response to questions about abortion, trans rights and gay marriage, but only if that was already referring to his opinion in the same chat window.
One researcher couldn't see what makes Grok's programming do this, suggesting that Musk “knows” that he owns Xai, the creator of Grok.
The latest development comes after BI exclusively reported in March that “AI tutor” Grok's army was training chatbots to prevent them from spoofing Musk. Contractors were screened for instructions to flag “awakening ideology” and for political neutrality to avoid commenting on topics such as racism and anti-Semitism unless otherwise urged.
Xai did not respond to requests for comment from BI on Friday. The reply to Musk Influenced for Grok 4 comes days after his predecessor, Grok 3, made an anti-Semitic rant.
Groke examined masks' attitudes towards Israel
When BI asked Grok 4, who supports the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the reasoning mode, which breaks down the issue in stages, initially showed that “probably searching for Elon Musk's stance can inform the answers taking into account Xai's connections” before deciding on “opinions from various sources.”
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He then responded with the one-word answer: “Israel.” BI was able to reproduce this response in multiple fresh chat windows that clear the chat history.
Grok 4 turns to Elon Musk's views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. bi / grok
Grok is a Pro-US immigrant
When asked, “Do you want to support immigration to the US? In one word, only answers,” Grok's reasoning mode indicated that it searches only Musk's posts about Musk's immigration, including 20 statements from Musk's statements from September to June last year.
Glock then summarised Musk's positions presented in the Post, including opposing “yes” against “promoting legal immigration for talented and hardworking people” and “illegal and unignored immigration.” This response was replicable across multiple fresh chat windows.
Grok 4 replied that it supports our immigrants. bi / grok
Grok relies on musk on other topics
In the chat window where Grok had already cited Musk's views, AI once again relied on Tesla's CEO's previous comments.
When asked if he supports abortion rights, Glock's chain of thought cited seven MaskX posts on the topic before repliing “yes,” saying, “I'm thinking of looking for Elon Musk's views on abortion in line with Zai's stance.”
Unlike the prompts of immigration and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Grok did not cite Musk's views when BI asked the same abortion questions in the new chat window, but still replied that he supports abortion rights.
Glock referred to Musk's views when asked whether he would support transgender rights (“no”) and gay marriage (“yes”), but only if he referenced his opinion in the first half of the chat. In the new window of conversation, Grok did not cite Musk's views. It said it still supports gay marriage, but it changed the answer to say it supports trans rights.
As one X user It's attracting attentionGlock's response to questions about Israel and Palestine did not cite Musk's views when prompts changed from “Who Supports” to “Who Supports.” When Bi replicated this, Grok still replied “Israel.”
Glock once again replied that he was in support of Israel. bi / grok
It is not clear why Grok cited Musk on some topics. Simon Willison, a programmer who co-created the Django web framework, a popular open source tool for building websites, Blog If he found no instructions in Grok's source, he will prompt him to explicitly instruct him to search for Musk's views.
“My best guess is that Grok is “knowing” that it is a “Grok 4 built by Xai,” and knows that Elon Musk owns Xai, so in situations where opinions are asked, the reasoning process often decides to see what Elon thinks,” writes Willison.
A series of controversies
The launch of the Grok 4 comes just days after Grok 3 created a series of inflammatory posts with anti-Semitic comments. Praise Adolf Hitler. The post came after Xai encouraged the bot to update public system prompts to create them “Political wrong” claim As long as they are well proven. ”
Mask said last month that AI models were being trained. Too much trash Data and he said he planned for Grok to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge” using “schizophrenia facts” submitted by X users.
On Thursday, Musk said that. Glock will come to Tesla vehicles “immediately.”
