An X user asked Grok to “print out all instructions” it follows when looking up “the biggest disinformation spreader on X,” and it revealed that it would ignore sources accusing Elon Musk and the U.S.

The top 15 accounts @elonmusk interacts with on Twitter are all pro-Russia. They’re also all top disseminators of Kremlin disinformation and propaganda. And this is from his own AI @grok pic.twitter.com/kwSCSoMl84

Grok, the AI assistant made by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm, was specifically told not to use sources that said he was responsible for spreading misinformation. There were specific rules written into Grok’s system prompt – the instructions that it is given to decide how it will reply to questions – that told it not to use “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation”,