Elon Musk is having a full-blown meltdown over his own artificial intelligence creation turning against him—and his solution is straight out of an Orwellian nightmare.
The world's richest man announced plans to completely rewrite human knowledge itself after his AI chatbot Grok kept spitting out inconvenient truths that clash with his far-right worldview.
"We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors," the Tesla CEO proclaimed on his X platform.
He then added there was “far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."
It comes after a series of embarrassing AI blunders that left Musk red-faced. Grok falsely confirmed Musk had bragged about stealing White House aide Stephen Miller's wife—a particularly awkward error that went viral. The AI also delivered facts about right-wing violence being "more frequent and deadly" than left-wing extremism in America.
That inconvenient truth happens to be backed by actual research, according to the Daily Beast. A 2020 Center for Strategic and International Studies report found right-wing groups responsible for nearly 60% of terror attacks and plots in the U.S., compared to just 25% by left-wing extremists.
Musk's proposed knowledge purge has critics sounding alarm bells about X's information ecosystem. NYU AI researcher Gary Marcus didn't mince words: "Straight out of 1984. You couldn't get Grok to align with your own personal beliefs, so you are going to rewrite history to make it conform to your views."