Stuart A. Thompson

Grok used to say that misinformation and disinformation were greatest threat to Western civilization. Elon Musk changed the answer to something more in line with his personal views: “demographic collapse.”

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site.

This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image

My colleagues and I tested different versions of Grok released since May to pinpoint how Musk has pushed the chatbot to the right www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real? In this quiz, you can guess whether these videos were made by A.I.

try my new AI quiz: can you tell whether these talking AI videos are real or not? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

AI has already infiltrated 50 elections around the world, according to a new collection of examples we gathered + work from IPIE www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

kash is the 🐐. wild story here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

omg no

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lots

correct this was my goal

moi?

rational and reasonable

i think it would make some people feel better about society, but society would probably get worse while you look the other way

i did get into it, just not on the very first mention which is in the intro and obliquely, which was the question posed above. to my eyes the reasons why he used the photo is clear in referencing his interest in stoking outrage and commentary.

well said

you mean 2023?

it's one of those things that if you get into it a little, you need to get into it a lot. bc of the way he talked about it, i wanted to include it in a section about Griner because he felt attacked by the media who didn't consider him a real person, yet does the same thing constantly.

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a take

thank you for your contribution to society

i wonder if that was in the story

he has, it's just not a good one

ok

did u read it?

thank you!

He’s a Master of Outrage on X. He’s Also Broke.

I've spent years following a right-wing influencer who's made a career out of outrage. I wanted to understand why he does it. What does his career look like, his income? Here's what I found. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

Thanks for sharing

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