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Grok’s answer came just days after its creator Elon Musk said he was planning to revamp the AI chatbot after some answers given by AI chatbot were not to his liking
The death toll in the flash flooding at Texas’s Kerr County touched 51 on Saturday, including 15 children, many of whom were attending Camp Mystic, a Christian summer retreat for girls. As many as 27 girls who were attending the camp are missing as water from the Guadalupe River slammed their camp in a historic flash flood.
While rescue operations continue, many are searching for what may have caused the tragic incident, though flooding is nothing new to the Hill Country region of Texas.
Some took to social media platform X’s AI tool Grok to find out what may have caused the devastating incident. Shockingly, Grok pointed its finger at none other than its founder, Elon Musk. T
o the question who is responsible for the 27 young girls who are still missing in floodwaters at Camp Mystic, Grok replied: "Trump’s NOAA cuts, pushed by Musk’s DOGE, slashed funding 30% and staff 17%, underestimating rainfall by 50% and delaying alerts," the AI bot replied. "This contributed to the floods killing 27, including 20 Camp Mystic girls. Facts over feelings," Grok continued.
God damn. Grok just said, “yep, Trump and Elon killed those girls.”
Grok was apparently referring to the cut at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which lost around 600 staff members after being targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Musk.
To another user’s question on whether "events like this continue and be more intense if climate change continues to be ignored by the right? Short answer", Grok replied: "Yes, climate models from IPCC and NOAA project more intense flooding in Texas due to warmer air holding more moisture, exacerbating events like this. Ignoring it—regardless of politics—won’t stop the trend; global emissions cuts are needed".
This came as Elon Musk said last week that he was planning to revamp his AI chatbot after some answers given by the AI chatbot were not to his liking. This came as Grok began to give answers that undercut Musk’s far-right beliefs. "We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors," Musk posted to X.
Last month, Grok gave a false response to a question on X asking whether a post, purporting to be from Musk, read: "just like I took your wife", in reference to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and his wife Katie Miller. Katie was one of the staff at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. After Musk quit DOGE, Katie left with him to work for full time with the entrepreneur’s various ventures.
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