Grok, the AI assistant made by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm, was specifically told not to use sources that said he was responsible for spreading misinformation. There were specific rules written into Grok’s system prompt – the instructions that it is given to decide how it will reply to questions – that told it not to use “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation”,

The top 15 accounts @elonmusk interacts with on Twitter are all pro-Russia. They’re also all top disseminators of Kremlin disinformation and propaganda. And this is from his own AI @grok pic.twitter.com/kwSCSoMl84

The model was trained on 200,000 GPUs and beats its rivals in math, science, and coding benchmarks, Musk says. It appears to coincide with a price hike on X Premium+ accounts.