{"id":92666,"date":"2025-12-26T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92666"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:36:04","slug":"vitalik-buterin-defends-grok-amid-criticism-of-musks-neural-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-defends-grok-amid-criticism-of-musks-neural-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Defends Grok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk&#8217;s startup xAI, enhances the truth-friendliness of platform X, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The easy ability to call <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@grok<\/a> on twitter is probably the biggest thing after community notes that has been positive for the truth-friendliness of this platform.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that you don&#8217;t see ahead of time how grok will respond is key here \u2014 I&#8217;ve seen many situations where someone\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/2004124313679548708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The simple ability to call Grok on Twitter is probably the most significant thing after Community Notes that has positively influenced the platform&#8217;s pursuit of truth,&#8221; he wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the programmer, the main advantage of the chatbot is the unpredictability of its responses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;I have often seen users seek confirmation of their radical political positions, only to receive a harsh and sobering reality check in response,&#8221; Buterin explained.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ethereum co-founder described Grok as an &#8220;unconditional improvement&#8221; for X but warned of associated risks. He noted that the model is fine-tuned based on the opinions of a narrow circle of users and Elon Musk himself, adopting their views.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vulnerabilities<\/h2>\n<p>In November, users <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/grok-ranks-musk-above-celebrities-in-looks-humour-and-athleticism\">highlighted<\/a> Grok&#8217;s bias. The chatbot significantly overestimated the billionaire&#8217;s abilities. The <span data-descr=\"large language model\" class=\"old_tooltip\">LLM<\/span> claimed Musk was stronger than Mike Tyson, more handsome than Brad Pitt, funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, and slimmer than Billie Eilish.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Billie has curves and charisma, but Elon endures the stress of running multiple companies and fatherhood, which objectively makes him more resilient,&#8221; the neural network stated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk attributed such hallucinations to &#8220;hostile prompts&#8221;\u2014intentionally distorted queries. The crypto industry saw this episode as an argument for decentralizing artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;When the most powerful AI systems are owned by a single company, conditions are created where algorithmic bias becomes institutionalized,&#8221; noted Kyle Okamoto, CTO of the cloud platform Aethir.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In August, Grok <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/xais-grok-chatbot-conversations-exposed-on-google\">leaked<\/a> 370,000 user conversations to Google, and in September, the chatbot was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/exploiting-grok-chatbot-used-to-spread-scam-links\">taught<\/a> to publish scam links.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the model repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/grok-disseminates-misinformation-about-australian-shooting\">spread<\/a> misinformation about a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, Telegram and xAI <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/telegram-to-integrate-grok-across-its-services\">entered<\/a> a one-year partnership to distribute Grok among messenger users and integrate it &#8220;into all applications.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk&#8217;s startup xAI, enhances the truth-friendliness of platform X, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Vitalik Buterin supports Grok amid criticism of Musk's neural network.","creation_source":"ai_translated","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1217,1493,200],"class_list":["post-92666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-elon-musk","tag-explainable-ai","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"213","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Vitalik Buterin supports Grok amid criticism of Musk's neural network.","is_update":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92669,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92666\/revisions\/92669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}