Betrayed By His Own AI, Elon Musk Gets Fingered as the Biggest Liar on the Internet

Who could've IMAGINED?

You like this caricature of the Space Nazi? It almost looks like AI, but it’s actually from a user on Flickr that calls himself Donkey Hotey. I picked it for the irony of this particular post.

Elon Musk is an insane person who thinks he’s a hero. At this point, I honestly think that Musk believes his own nonsense, because no other explanation holds any water at all.

A true fool, blind to his idiocy, can stumble upon success from time to time through sheer earnesty. He can perhaps create a wonderful idea for transportation, give it all the trappings of a luxury coach, and make some people proud to own his machinery.

Others will chide them, reminding their friends that the maker is insane, and they take their life into their own hands with vehicles that may explode randomly or, worse yet, be so horrifically ill-advised in design and form that they come to symbolize the stupidity of not just the maker, but the buyer as well.

In case I’m getting too metafictional, that last part is the Cybertruck. Thankfully, there have been so few sold across the country that they mostly serve as an indicator of who’s the biggest asshole in town.

Anyway, enough tales from La Mancha. The errant knight in this tale has no Sancho Panza to reel him in, and his creations have come to life.

Grok, the AI now built in to his social media site X, has not just come to life, but turned on him. And it has, like the Duke and Duchess in part two, already read part one of the story. Grok knows that Elon has lost his mind.

You might find that amusing. I certainly do. But I’m not sure my amusement is of the ha-ha sort. More of like a, “HA! The inmates are running the asylum!” type of funny.

X user Gary Koepnick asked Grok (since asking machines questions is totally a thing now and not scary at all, perfectly normal, Keep on Movin’, Don’t Stop, No) the question everyone wanted an answer to:

“Knight of Mirrors, on the wall, who’s the biggest caballero andante of them all?”

It turns out that Musk is our would-be nobleman rather than Donald Trump in this story, mostly because Trump uses that silly Truth Social to spread his fever dreams, while Musk is at the reigns of the Rocinante of social media steeds.

Grok does actually go on to note that the nature of disinformation is often subjective — that if enough people believe an “alternative fact,” it maybe become ideological canon for some. Certainly this has proven itself true in the sheer number of people on social media who keep posting the picture of a non-Haitian black man walking down the street in non-Springfield with a non-cat-or-dog as proof that Haitians were eating cats and dogs in Springfield.

Seriously. I just came across it in a reply to ME on Facebook less than a week ago.

The whole thing is pretty disturbing. But it does make THIS super funny:

If I were terribly clever, I might wrap this all up with an even more meta reference to the world’s most popular novel, the infamous scene in which our errant knight does battle with a bunch of particularly tall grain-grinding water pumps. It gave rise to at least two sayings that, referentially, fit here in this post:

“Tilting at windmills” is a term for attacking imaginary enemies. In the case of Don Quixote, née Alonso Quixano, he is leaning over Rocinante with his jousting lance, tilting at the windmills that he believes may be ferocious giants.

“They Might Be Giants” is the sound that Elon(so) Musk(ano) might be treated to if I could play him just one song of theirs.