Elon Musk claims people manipulated Grok into paying him delusional compliments with ‘adversarial prompting’ – 17 straight-talking fact-checks
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You do realize that being so easy to manipulate absolutely destroys your claim that "grok is based on truth" right?
— JerryRigEverything (@ZacksJerryRig) November 20, 2025
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Absurdly positive things like being the champion of eating poop? pic.twitter.com/BiLNlfLiNo
— President-Elect Toguro (@PresidentToguro) November 20, 2025
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Asking who would win in a fight between one man and another isn’t considered ‘adversarial prompting’ in any universe.
Yet Grok for some reason thinks that you can beat Tyson, outsmart Einstein, and outdo every other being including God himself at any task imaginable.
Concerning
— Артемий Леонов (@Leonov_mr) November 20, 2025
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Lol what a loser.
Can’t even admit you were glazing yourself! https://t.co/hp7uyPYuki
— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) November 20, 2025
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You build a technology you cannot control, and we should trust you with Superhuman AI?
You are going to get everyone killed Elon! pic.twitter.com/nKBHFinka2
— Yanco (@the_yanco) November 20, 2025
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Elon, in Grok's mind pic.twitter.com/di4VFZ93hz
— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) November 20, 2025
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Taking this as true, either A: grok’s foundational system prompt can be injected by user input, or B: Elon was doing the “adversarial prompting.” Do you really think we’re this stupid? Do you think nobody knows how LLMs work?? https://t.co/tfCgqCrIRC
— Christopher Russell, JD (@cwr_jd) November 21, 2025
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“Adversarial prompting”
They literally just asked it basic questions.
And in turn showed how much you made it lie to praise you and your fragile as fuck ego!
You’ll never be as cool as Grok wants you to be! ♂️ https://t.co/L3LDIAValt
— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) November 20, 2025
Perhaps inevitably, someone asked Grok.
.@grok is this true? https://t.co/DtaYX9ocDs
— Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) (@agraybee) November 21, 2025
This was the response.
Somebody forgot to delete the arse-kissing instruction.
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