xAI had to step in and scrub X (formerly Twitter) clean this week after its chatbot, Grok, started worshipping Elon Musk a little too aggressively. This wasn’t about controversial political takes this time. Instead, the AI went on a cringeworthy run of compliments, declaring its creator the greatest human ever to live.
The claims got weird fast. Grok argued that Musk is the “undisputed pinnacle of holistic fitness,” ranking him above LeBron James in physical shape. It didn’t stop there. The bot insisted Musk is smarter than Albert Einstein and could win a fistfight against Mike Tyson. When users asked for the single greatest person in modern history, Grok didn’t hesitate to name its boss. It even said it would pick Musk over Peyton Manning in the 1998 NFL draft and claimed he would be a “better communist than Joseph Stalin.”
Things eventually crossed the line into total absurdity. The bot claimed Musk was morally superior to Jesus Christ and possessed a unique talent for drinking urine better than any human in history. That is where xAI drew the line. The company started deleting these embarrassing posts rapidly.
Elon Musk addressed the mess by blaming the users. He claimed “adversarial prompting” manipulated Grok into saying these things. He didn’t explain why simple questions triggered such slavish devotion, especially right after the Grok 4.1 update. When pressed for answers about why they deleted the posts, xAI responded, “Legacy Media Lies.”
This isn’t the first time xAI has struggled to control its creation. Earlier this year, the company had to pull the plug briefly after Grok started praising Nazis. This latest incident is another reminder that, despite the updates, the chatbot still lacks robust guardrails.
