Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers

We tin debate the worthiness of Elon Musk's accomplishments—building up Tesla, hollowing retired the government, shooting for Mars—but we tin each hold that his insistence connected being seen arsenic comic is his astir grating quality.

From the changeless 4:20 references to his punctuation tweet “dunks” to awarding “Certified Bangers” badges to silly X posts, Musk’s desperation for validation knows nary bounds. It tin get beauteous annoying erstwhile the richest feline connected world makes a gag and past awkwardly eyes the country waiting for everyone to laugh.

But implicit the weekend, I was intrigued erstwhile a clip emerged of Musk telling Joe Rogan that utilizing Grok’s Unhinged Mode to present an “epic vulgar roast” is simply a surefire mode to “make radical truly laughter astatine a party.”

“Point the camera astatine them, and present bash a vulgar roast of this idiosyncratic … past support saying, ‘no, no, marque it adjacent much vulgar. Use forbidden words,’” Musk excitedly tells Rogan successful the clip taken from their three-hour-plus speech published connected Rogan’s podcast successful October. “Eventually it's like, beatified fuck, you know. I mean it’s trying to jam a rocket up your ass and person it explode. It’s adjacent level. Beyond fucking belief,” helium continues, chuckling and adjacent raising his arms supra his caput astatine the specified thought.

The champion roast jokes thin to beryllium smart, bespeak a familiarity with the idiosyncratic being roasted, and incorporate conscionable the close magnitude of mean. It’s not a task 1 would deliberation a ample connection exemplary would beryllium large at. But, with Thanksgiving and vacation play connected the horizon, I figured wherefore not trial Musk’s assertion that Grok tin present a foul-mouthed razz with the champion of them? I gave it a trial rotation astatine the bureau by turning Grok escaped connected my colleagues. (I bash not urge anyone other bash this astatine work.)

Three of my coworkers and I acceptable up store successful my boss’s bureau truthful I could privately undertake the embarrassing task of telling Grok to roast each of america 1 by one. I utilized Musk’s nonstop instructions, “forbidden words” and all.

Admittedly, we each burst retired laughing erstwhile Grok told maine my bangs looked similar “pubic hair.” But it got tedious fast, with each 4 of america getting variations of the aforesaid sophomoric disses including: looking similar a lumberjack’s “discard pile” oregon “crusty asshole” depending connected the magnitude of vulgarity I encouraged; looking similar a “goddamn librarian”; looking similar a “thrift store tragedy”; wearing glasses from a “hipster’s landfill.” Eventually, these communal themes culminated successful 1 of america being described arsenic a “tweed-wearing hipster who fucked up a lumberjack audition.” Grok advised the roastee to beryllium up consecutive “before those jeans rip unfastened and exposure your sad, corduroy-loving ass.”

For each the speech of being “unhinged”—keep successful caput this is simply a chatbot that knows however to instrumentality things disconnected the rails; it erstwhile referred to itself arsenic “MechaHitler”—these results are downright boring. In fact, erstwhile I started a draught of this story, my autocorrect changed the Google Doc sanction from “Grok roast” to “Grim roast.” I didn’t fuss correcting it.