Vitalik Buterin says Grok keeps Elon Musk's X honest despite potential biases

Vitalik Buterin Says Grok Keeps Musk's X Honest

X's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, makes the social media platform more truth-friendly with responses that oppose users who turn to it to confirm political biases, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said. "The easy ability to call Grok on Twitter is probably the biggest thing after community notes that has been positive for the truth-friendliness of this platform," Buterin said on Thursday. "The fact that you don't see ahead of time how Grok will respond is key here," he added. "I've seen many situations where someone calls on Grok expecting their crazy political belief to be confirmed and Grok comes along and rugs them." Buterin said a strong case can be made that Grok is a "net improvement" to X, but acknowledged concerns over how the AI chatbot is fine-tuned to learn from the opinions and views of certain users, including its creator, Elon Musk. Grok's flaws were on full display last month when it boasted about Musk's athletic ability and even suggested he could have resurrected faster than Jesus Christ. Musk blamed "adversarial prompting" for the hallucinations, and crypto executives argued it showed why AI needs to be decentralized in order to safeguard accuracy, credibility, and impartiality. Kyle Okamoto, chief technology officer at decentralized cloud platform Aethir, told Cointelegraph last month that "when the most powerful AI systems are owned, trained and governed by a single company, you create conditions for algorithmic bias to become institutionalized knowledge." "Models begin to produce worldviews, priorities and responses as if they're objective facts, and that's when bias stops being a bug and becomes the operating logic of the system that's replicated at scale." Related: Ethereum must become simpler to achieve true trustlessness: Buterin Grok is built by Musk's AI company, xAI, and is one of the most widely used AI chatbots. With over 1 billion people using AI, incorrect and misleading information has the potential to spread rapidly. Still, Buterin said Grok has been more successful in making X more truth-seeking than many of the other "third-party slop that we see." Grok isn't the only AI chatbot with problems -- OpenAI's ChatGPT has been criticized for biased responses and factual errors, while Character.ai is facing allegations that its chatbot lured a 13-year-old boy into a sexually abusive interaction and even encouraged him to take his own life.

Elon Musk's Grok Might Skew Toward The xAI CEO's Biases, But Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin Says It's Still Better Than 'Third-Party Slop'

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Thursday that Grok's presence on X is a major boost to the platform's "truth-friendliness," second only to community notes. Buterin Acknowledges Grok's Efficiency In an X post, Buterin praised the "easy ability" to call the AI chatbot for fact-checks on X, deeming it the "biggest thing" after community notes that has been positive for the platform. "I've seen many situations where someone calls on Grok expecting their crazy political belief to be confirmed and Grok comes along and rugs them," the cryptocurrency mogul shared his observations. See Also: Elon Musk Says Only AI, Robotics Can 'Make Everyone Wealthy:' 'Doing My Best' Buterin's Views On Musk Buterin, however, voiced concerns that Grok's training on human feedback could potentially bias it toward the views of Elon Musk, since the Tesla and xAI CEO owns the social media platform. But despite the "negative" assumptions about Musk, Buterin felt X is still better than unchecked "third-party slop." He invoked the "stationary bandit theory," arguing that long-term players such as Musk have incentives to promote a level of transparency, unlike short-term opportunists who might be there only to exploit. This isn't the first time Buterin has expressed opinions about Musk's platform. Earlier this month, he criticized X for straying from its intended purpose of promoting free speech, instead becoming a tool for "coordinated hate sessions". Buterin also accused Musk of "actively tweaking" algorithms to boost certain things and deboost others. Grok 5 In 2026 Last month, Musk teased the latest model of his AI venture, Grok 5, due for release in early 2026. He said the new model will be "extremely" intelligent and fast, adding that he believes there's roughly a 10% chance it could reach human-level intelligence. Read Next: Jim Cramer Slams 'Big Freakout' Selling In Nvidia, AI, Crypto Stocks After Strong GDP Print: 'It Is Just Stupid' Disclaimer: This content was partially produced with the help of Benzinga Neuro and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors. Photo Courtesy: lilgrapher on Shutterstock.com $ETHEthereum$2962.672.07%OverviewMarket News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs