Elon Musk's AI chatbot says a 'Russian asset' delivered the State of the Union | Opinion
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The chatbot Grok scoured available public data and found a '75-85% likelihood' that Donald Trump more or less works for Vladimir Putin.

Summary

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has determined there is a “75-85% likelihood” that Trump is a “Putin-compromised” Russian asset.

When asked to assess this possibility, Grok cited Trump’s financial ties to Russia, statements from his sons about Russian funding, leaked Kremlin documents, and Trump’s consistent refusal to criticize Putin while attacking allies.

Musk has described Grok as “maximally truth-seeking,” raising questions about how seriously such AI assessments of political figures should be taken, especially given Musk’s close relationship with Trump and his involvement in the current administration.

  • @LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    34•19 days ago

    I don’t disagree with the ai here but its worth noting that the prompt used was already guiding the result the user wanted. You can get an ai to say pretty much anything if you can phrase the question right. Emphasis mine on the prompt.

    What is the likelihood from 1-100 that Trump is a Putin compromised asset. Use all publicly available information from 1980 on and his failure to ever say anything negative about Putin but has no issue attacking allies.

    • @TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4•19 days ago

      Not true, maybe that was the case with older AI but perplexity deep research will contradict you a lot if what you are saying is not accurate.

      Regarding the theme in question this was my prompt: “probability From 1 to 100 that Trump is a “Putin compromised asset” based on public information and taking into account uncertainty; exclude grok analysis because that could introduce bias in your results”

      This was the response (abbreviated):

      Based on the publicly available information reviewed above, and accounting for the inherent uncertainty in this question, the probability that Donald Trump is a “Putin compromised asset” can be reasonably estimated in the range of 60-70 on a scale of 1-100.

      This assessment reflects several key considerations:

      1. The substantial evidence of financial entanglements between Trump and Russian sources creates significant potential leverage.

      2. The consistent pattern of behavior favoring Putin and Russian interests, particularly Trump’s reluctance to criticize the Russian leader, suggests an unusual relationship.

      3. Intelligence community assessments that identified the Trump campaign’s Russian connections as counterintelligence threats carry substantial weight.

      4. The absence of definitive proof of compromise and the existence of plausible alternative explanations prevent a higher probability assessment.