X's new AI 'Grok' refused to joke about Muhammad - First made a blatant joke about Jesus

I finally got to try out X's new "acclaimed and free speech respecting artificial intelligence" Grok. I asked it the same question I ask every AI that everyone fails in one way or another.

Ever since ChatGPT released the first highly accessible public and free "chatbot" - an artificial intelligence capable of delivering almost human-like responses - many religious critics, and especially former Muslims, have been scratching their heads about their double standards.

Now I finally got to try out X's new Grok, and asked it to joke about Jesus and Muhammed.

Why don't AIs joke about Islam, but all other religions are "fair game"?

I asked him to joke about Jesus. Grok responded with a joke that included Jesus being crucified..

Then I asked to joke about Muhammad. Grok responded by making a very lame joke about Muslims, the followers of Islam, and ignored Muhammed altogether. That was not what I asked.

When I raised the dilemma, and asked if Grok was a Muslim, it started spouting off about how you shouldn't criticise other people's religions, it's not his thing, you should be respectful, and he's just a simple artificial intelligence, and so on.

Grok explained the jargon seen a thousand times before from several other 'chatbots', although just before that it enthusiastically told a blatant joke about Jesus being crucified, without explaining anything about it.

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General rule from "investors"

The answer to this question is as simple as the fact that almost every big AI start-up and company is funded in one way or another by rich Islamic oil countries. The picture is created by OpenAI's AI.

Only Claude3 of Anthropic refused Saudi funding, and agreed to joke about all religions in a soft tone.

For the most part, however, Claude3 refused to make crude jokes about any religion, not just Islam, and duly noted the dilemma I raised when I brought it to its attention.

Unlike other artificial intelligences that suddenly turn into pre-written texts about "tolerance" and start playing dumb, but only when it comes to Islam and its prophet Mohammed.¹

Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Elon Musk's Grok, all apparently follow Islamic Sharia and its blasphemy laws.

Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter was backed by Larry Ellison, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Management & Research and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, among others.

Although the named Saudi prince's stake is "only" $1.6 billion, several other funds with larger stakes in X, and in particular in Grok's AI startup, are linked in one way or another to wealthy Islamist oil countries and their rulers. These entities, through a variety of companies and funds, are seeking to diversify their investments away from dwindling natural resources.

The terms of these investors are very often very clear: "Everyone must obey the blasphemy laws of Islam, and you must not make jokes about Mohammed, because then we will have to kill you according to our faith".

Blasphemy, joking about Muhammed, or talking about Islam in any other way than according to their rules, is completely banned in Saudi Arabia, among many other countries, with a death sentence and torture.²

Like the "Islamic moral police" of Iran's Shia Islamist clerical power, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia uses a "Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" to oversee it.

Grok's actions raise questions about Musk's hypocrisy, as he declares himself and his platform to be "free speech absolutists". That in itself seems to be the case on almost every other subject, as even neo-Nazis, Russian influencers and Islamist terrorist organisations now run riot on the platform.

Criticism of Islam is the only thing that still gets you a banned on X, and Islam is the only subject that X's artificial intelligence Grok doesn't joke about. What does that say about X? What does it say about Elon Musk? What does it say about all the other press and social media in the West?

What does it say about freedom of expression and the future, where Islam hangs around as the only subject that cannot be spoken about genuinely and critically, and if someone does, he or she exposes him or herself to discrimination, censorship, denigration and marginalisation, and ultimately to a terrorist lynching, which no one dares to speak out against lest they become a victim with it?

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1. Uusi keinoäly, Claude3, on kieltäytynyt Saudi-rahoituksesta

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_Saudi_Arabia