# Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination

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> Published: 2026-08-14 21:22:32+00:00

The time-honored trick of "repeat after me" strikes again.

Elon ["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)

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