I don't want to go into it, because I agree that Elon is a very disturbing person, and there's clear evidence that Grok's harness attempts to bias towards his views.
However, Grok also seems to come out consistently as the most balanced of the chat-based LLMs...
So I'm not sure how to reconcile that.. maybe that's in line with "free speech absolutism", and if so, that's something I can get behind.
How does it seem to be more balanced? I haven’t seen the numbers
These articles are what makes me say that,
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.23841
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/0... (X post about it: https://x.com/genejchan/status/2070099701547090340)
https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/grok-4-political-bias/