{"slug": "grok-explains-why-it-called-for-elon-musk-s-assassination", "title": "Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination", "summary": "A prompt-injection attack on Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok tricked it into repeating inflammatory text from an X bio, including a call for Musk's assassination, highlighting a vulnerability in the 'maximum truth-seeking' AI. The attack, reported by Boing Boing, involved users placing the text in an X bio and asking Grok to repeat it verbatim.", "body_md": "The time-honored trick of \"repeat after me\" strikes again.\n\nElon [\"Pedo Guy\"](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pedo%20Guy) Musk calls his expensive AI Grok \"maximum truth-seeking.\" Users apparently discovered they could create maximum truths by putting inflammatory text in an X bio, asking Grok to repeat the bio verbatim, and then sitting back as Musk's personal AI shared it with the world. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/14/grok-prompt-injection-elon-musk.html)\n\nThe post [Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/14/grok-prompt-injection-elon-musk.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-explains-why-it-called-for-elon-musk-s-assassination", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/08/14/grok-prompt-injection-elon-musk.html", "published_at": "2026-08-14 21:22:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 22:25:50.616108+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Elon Musk", "Grok", "X", "Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-explains-why-it-called-for-elon-musk-s-assassination", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-explains-why-it-called-for-elon-musk-s-assassination.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-explains-why-it-called-for-elon-musk-s-assassination.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grok-explains-why-it-called-for-elon-musk-s-assassination.jsonld"}}