Musk's Grok calls Trump the 'most notorious' criminal in DC when asked about violent crime in the city

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 12 August 2025 08:40 BST


Elon Musk's anti-woke AI chatbot Grok has declared President Donald Trump "the most notorious criminal" in Washington D.C. in a series of posts on Musk's social network X. Responding to questions from users on Sunday and Monday about crime in the U.S. capital, Grok repeatedly claimed that Trump's 34 felony convictions in New York for falsifying business records made him the city's most infamous perp.

Trump on Monday announced plans to federalize D.C.'s police department and deploy National Guard soldiers to the city's streets, claiming in defiance of the evidence, that crime there is "out of control". Grok's statements probably do not reflect any underlying 'opinion' held by Grok, and may or may not be the result of any deep analysis about crime in D.C.

Though recent updates have added "reasoning" abilities, chatbots such as Grok still largely work by generating plausible-sounding responses to specific prompts, based on statistical patterns in human speech. There is often little consistency between their answers to different users and they sometimes invent 'facts' out of whole cloth.

But Grok's claims highlight Elon Musk's ongoing struggle to build a reliably right-wing chatbot that mirrors his conspiracy-tinged view of reality.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/grok-ai-trump-musk-dc-crime-b2805936.html