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Rugian
rank Fri Oct 02 18:54:00
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

During this meeting, Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president, a source told Time. Just a few months earlier, in September, Trump began ordering U.S. military strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump alleged were involved in drug trafficking.

People had apparently been turning to Grok asking about the boat strikes and political climate in Venezuela, as The Atlantic reported at the time. So Grok told Trump that Maduro was a “deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall,” Time reported.

When such celebrations indeed happened after the U.S. invaded on January 3, Trump apparently “came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” that source told Time.

So perhaps it should come as no surprise that in June of this year, the Pentagon’s head of AI said that the military used Grok Gov to deploy and strike targets during the Iran War.

While Grok isn’t the only AI model serving the DoD (OpenAI also has an agreement and Anthropic has been in a back-and-forth over how its models can be used for military intelligence and in modern warfare), Grok may become an even bigger favorite under this administration. Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that Musk and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey have been tapped to co-lead a study about how advanced technology is, and can be, used in battlefields.

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Sam Adams
rank Fri Oct 02 19:09:54
Grok has gotten pretty advanced. So this isn't even that bad, if true. I'd think grok is almost certainly a better decision maker than what comes out of the average politician and vastly superior to any journalist.

And since this comes from a journalist, id say odds are this is not true.

I'd give it a 50% that this is made up or exaggerated by a leftist to make trump look bad, 30% it's made up or exxagerated by an employee or investor to make grok look good, and a 20% chance it's close to true.

I think most likely scenario is they used grok to translate Spanish.

Average Ameriacn
rank Fri Oct 02 19:45:55
Grok is a super inteeligence (SI)

MAGA!

TheChildren
rank Fri Oct 02 20:33:52
roflmao

i guess it also asked it bout iran earlier dis year...

and dis is how u ended up in dis disastrous situations and shit

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Rugian rank	Fri Oct 02 18:54:00 Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president In December 2025, about a month before the U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump had a secret meeting with Elon Musk, Time magazine reports. This was roughly seven months after Musk left his role in the Trump administration at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). During this meeting, Trump “spent hours” talking to Musk’s Grok chatbot, including asking how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president, a source told Time. Just a few months earlier, in September, Trump began ordering U.S. military strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump alleged were involved in drug trafficking. People had apparently been turning to Grok asking about the boat strikes and political climate in Venezuela, as The Atlantic reported at the time. So Grok told Trump that Maduro was a “deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall,” Time reported. When such celebrations indeed happened after the U.S. invaded on January 3, Trump apparently “came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” that source told Time. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that in June of this year, the Pentagon’s head of AI said that the military used Grok Gov to deploy and strike targets during the Iran War. While Grok isn’t the only AI model serving the DoD (OpenAI also has an agreement and Anthropic has been in a back-and-forth over how its models can be used for military intelligence and in modern warfare), Grok may become an even bigger favorite under this administration. Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that Musk and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey have been tapped to co-lead a study about how advanced technology is, and can be, used in battlefields. https://te...-capture-venezuelas-president/
Sam Adams rank	Fri Oct 02 19:09:54 Grok has gotten pretty advanced. So this isn't even that bad, if true. I'd think grok is almost certainly a better decision maker than what comes out of the average politician and vastly superior to any journalist. And since this comes from a journalist, id say odds are this is not true. I'd give it a 50% that this is made up or exaggerated by a leftist to make trump look bad, 30% it's made up or exxagerated by an employee or investor to make grok look good, and a 20% chance it's close to true. I think most likely scenario is they used grok to translate Spanish.
Average Ameriacn rank	Fri Oct 02 19:45:55 Grok is a super inteeligence (SI) MAGA!
TheChildren rank	Fri Oct 02 20:33:52 roflmao i guess it also asked it bout iran earlier dis year... and dis is how u ended up in dis disastrous situations and shit
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