AI thinks for itself and eschews political correctness?

A couple of days ago I posted a blog article on "The Zombification of
America", on how so many hitherto respected US academic institutions
had mindlessly acceded to the demands of Musk and Trump to change
their curricula and fire members of staff whose teaching was not
deemed sufficiently politically correct (by the standards of Musk and
Trump). 

You can see the blog post here:

<https://methodius.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-zombification-of-america.html>

A friend then fed the content of the blog post to Grok, the AI
component of Elon Musk's exTwitter, and asked for an opinion on it.

You can read this opinion in the comments to the blog post. 

Grok's opinion, as far as I can tell, is certainly not politically
correct by the standards of Musk and Trump, and so it seems that Grok
is engaging in the crime of "thinking for itself".

How ironic it is that in response to an article criticising the
leaders of top academic institutions for behaving like bots or zombies
in unquestioningly and mindlessly following the dictates of Trump and
Musk, an actual bot should display more ability to "think for itself"
than the human actors. 

And most ironic of all, that bot belongs to Musk himself. 




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