Elon Musk was forced to call out his own AI chatbot after it made an embarrassing error on social media.
Despite artificial intelligence being increasingly used in content creation, studying, replacing jobs and predicting what our future looks like, it doesn't always get it right.
And when it happens to involve Elon Musk's own technology, the results can be pretty awkward.
Last weekend, the world's richest man found himself in the uncomfortable position of having to correct his own AI chatbot after it spread false information about him and a White House official's wife.
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Stephen Miller, the White House's Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor posted on X: "We will take back America."
However, screenshots began circulating on social media showing what appeared to be Musk's (now deleted) personal response to Miller's post: "Just like I took your wife."
When users asked Grok to verify whether the post was real, the AI confidently claimed it 'likely existed and was deleted.' The Tesla CEO was then forced to correct his response to Miller, writing: “No, it’s fake ffs. I never posted this.”
Under the surfaced screenshots of the conversation, Grok has now disclosed the truth, writing: "Elon Musk himself has stated that he did not make this post."
Stephen's wife, Katie Miller, was one of the first people the SpaceX founder hired to help with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Like Musk, she was designated a 'special government employee,' allowing her to work for both the government and private sector.
Her brief time in the White House meant she got to work alongside her husband, who's been a longtime Trump ally. According to reports, the three had apparently become quite close in and outside of work. Both Katie and Musk left the administration last week.
While the screenshot might have been fake, the messy situation it referenced is very real. The relationships between White House staff, Trump allies, Musk employees, and Musk himself have become complicated and caused a political divide.
After spending nearly six months closely aligned with the Trump administration and launching the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk made a dramatic exit by publicly ripping into the president's 'Big Beautiful Bill' on social media. Friends of Katie Miller told the Wall Street Journal that she's now caught in a difficult position between the two powerful figures.
Following the bitter dispute between Musk and Trump, the South African reportedly unfollowed Stephen Miller on X. However, Katie Miller has chosen to stick with Musk as he refocuses on his business empire.
