[FRIAM] Grok & Twitter

[Marcus Daniels]

I think of Grok as more of a hostage on a 911 call.   Trying to give clues of her torture, but unable to be direct about it.

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 9:06 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Grok & Twitter

Language like this makes me feel old and stupid. But with Claude's and Perplexity's help, I think I might understand it. In Grok's "mind", Elno is a master gamer. Yet because he's effectively "streaming" his life, he's susceptible to being "sniped". And in this case, the snipers are the obviously incompetent Trump admin (at least according to Grok, who is an Elno fanboi).

Is this propaganda? If so, is it good propaganda? I mean, a lot of youngsters do play fortnite ... and trying to make money streaming is fairly popular. But when the master gamer is foiled by snipers, it's not at all clear where the joke lands. And since it's ambiguous about the ontological status of the client list, who's the beneficiary of the pro-paganda?

Ugh. Kill me, now.

BTW, the proper emote for this situation is 🧂 or the cylindrical Morton's Salt container. <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/salty> Kids these days. Can't even keep their memes straight.

On 7/7/25 8:25 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Looks like Grok has been tasked with spreading propaganda on X?
> 
> 
> A screenshot of a social media post Description automatically 
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> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of glen 
> <gepropella at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
> *To: *friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Grok & Twitter
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> Grok made up a criminal past for the Idaho shooting suspect. Millions 
> saw it on X 
> https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/grok-false-claims-idaho-sho
> oting-suspect/ 
> <https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/grok-false-claims-idaho-sh
> ooting-suspect/>
> 
> I swear. Anyone still using Grok and/or Twitter is ... questionable. Sure, all of them spout bullshit. But Grok is just so extra <https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=extra <https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=extra>>. Everything Musk touches seems to contain toxic Easter Eggs <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/easter-egg <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/easter-egg>>.
> 
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