Reuters reports that Elon Musk’s annoying chatbot Grok is now being used by the US government. Although the extent and nature of this use is unclear, sources interviewed by the publication expressed concern about the implications of the chatbot’s access to government data.
Grok was launched by xAI, an artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2023, and has since been integrated into Musk’s social media platform, X. The chatbot is known to summarize information in the most disgusting way possible, and was originally created as an antidote to ChatGPT and other more politically correct applications (although, as it turned out, it still proved too “disgusting” for conservatives).
The team at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency now uses a customized version of Grok, apparently to sort and analyze tranches of data. The team can also use a chatbot to prepare reports, the sources said.
Yes, but how many times have we heard this before? Elon has a lot of conflicts of interest. At the moment, he is a walking conflict of interest. As far as I know, he has never seen the inside of a courtroom and, unless he gets caught with a dead body or something, it’s doubtful he ever will.
Ever since Musk helped Trump get re-elected to a second term with hundreds of millions from his own coffers, he has treated the US government as his personal toy to be destroyed. Wherever you look, the billionaire seems to be benefiting from government cooperation, whether it’s the White House intimidating high-tariff countries into switching to Starlink satellite internet services or a new report showing that the billionaire’s companies may have saved nearly $2.37 billion in federal fines and penalties that were in effect during the Biden era but have since been “neutralized” in the Trump era.
As for DOGE’s mandate, the organization has been a complete failure. It has barely saved a fraction of the money Musk originally claimed, and in the long run, the cuts are likely to cost Americans money, as many of them have fallen on important institutions that provide key services to Americans.
