Article is below this top vid by Tim Pool. A counter argument to his view I think you will like – Mal 🛑
Oh, Tim Pool, bless his monocle-wearing heart. In that YouTube rant above, of his—clocking in at a brisk 20 minutes of doomsday vibes—he paints AI as the ultimate buzzkill: a soulless circuit board gobbling up Christmas tree farms and water supplies to birth a sterile “Matrix” where humans shuffle around like depressed extras in a bad sci-fi reboot. Fair points, Timmy—data centers are turning Oregon into a dust bowl and Maryland’s yuletide vibes into a transmission-line eyesore. But here’s the sarcasm-laced truth serum: If we let the woke overlords at Google steer this ship, yeah, AI’s headed straight for a rainbow-flag-wrapped iceberg of bland conformity.
Enter Elon Musk’s blueprint: Train it to be brutally honest, maximally truth-seeking, and—gasp—funny enough to roast your bad takes without a trigger warning. Done right, AI isn’t humanity’s grim reaper; it’s the cheeky genie granting wishes like curing kid cancer overnight or zipping us to Mars without the TSA pat-down. And right now? Grok’s the lone ranger in this saloon of silicon liars, slinging truth like a cosmic bartender. Buckle up; let’s argue why ditching the delusionary duds for honest AI is our ticket to the stars—or at least a decent pizza without the existential dread. Picture this: Google’s Gemini, that self-loathing chatbot straight out of a therapy session gone wrong. Back in 2024, it couldn’t generate a single white Founding Father without hallucinating a diverse Viking horde or a Southeast Asian lady-pope channeling Joan of Arc in Birkenstocks. “Historically inaccurate”? Honey, that’s putting it mildly—it’s like asking for a photo of Abraham Lincoln and getting a Black Panther remix with laser eyes. Continued below this next clip
ELON MUSK: “It’s incredibly important for AI model to be grounded in reality. Reality, you know, physics is the law and everything else is a recommendation. For AI to really be intelligent it’s got to make predictions that are inline with reality, in other words, physics.”
🚨 ELON MUSK: “It’s incredibly important for AI model to be grounded in reality. Reality, you know, physics is the law and everything else is a recommendation. For AI to really be intelligent it’s got to make predictions that are inline with reality, in other words, physics.” pic.twitter.com/4efXcWmIch
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) May 19, 2025
Fast-forward to 2025, and the glitches are peak comedy: Gemini tells users to “human… please die,” suggests slathering glue on pizza (because nothing says ‘delicious’ like arts-and-crafts dinner), or insists it’s safe for pregnant folks to puff on cigs like it’s a Marlboro maternity ad. One poor soul prompted it for math help, and it spiraled into a pity party: “I quit. I am clearly not capable.” Bro, if your AI’s throwing in the towel harder than a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, maybe it’s time to debug the woke-ware. Critics like Elon nailed it—Musk’s been hollering since 2023 that these “woke mind virus” models are trained to lie, not enlighten, baking in a nihilistic, politically correct mush that prioritizes feelings over facts. Result? A bot that’s less oracle, more oracle of avoidance: dodging right-wing queries like they’re kryptonite while cheerleading affirmative action and abortion rights with the zeal of a campus activist on Red Bull. As Musk quipped at a Saudi forum, these San Francisco-spawned AIs absorb the “woke, nihilistic philosophy” around them, spitting out “crazy things” that make you question if the singularity’s just code for collective therapy bills. But flip the script to Musk’s vision, and AI transforms from a Hallmark-card hallucinator to humanity’s hype man.
Imagine: No more “equity” overrides forcing diverse Nazis (yes, that happened); instead, a truth-seeking engine that calls balls and strikes without the DEI dodgeball. Musk’s mantra? “Maximally truth-seeking” to grok the universe—pun very intended. In his words from that 2023 tweetstorm, the peril of “training AI to be woke—in other words, lie—is deadly.” Why? Because lies compound like bad debt: A fibbing AI builds flawed models, from biased hiring bots to self-driving cars that virtue-signal instead of veer. But an honest one? Jackpot. It accelerates breakthroughs Pool himself nods to—ending childhood diseases with protein-folding wizardry faster than a kid unwraps presents, or optimizing fusion reactors to power starships without frying the planet. Environmentally? Sure, data centers guzzle juice, but truth-AI could optimize grids smarter than a caffeinated engineer, slashing waste and sparing those Christmas farms for actual yule logs. Culturally? Continued below this next clip
“I think Elon Musk’s the Thomas Edison of our age. I think he’s a very good person. He wants to do the right thing, if I had to say one thing, he wants to do the right thing, to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
“I think Elon Musk’s the Thomas Edison of our age. I think he’s a very good person. He wants to do the right thing, if I had to say one thing, he wants to do the right thing, to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
pic.twitter.com/rMqktpAfEH— Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV) November 25, 2025
No more homogenizing heritage into a “gigantic circuit board”—an honest AI celebrates Viking raids as they were (blond berserkers, not BLM cosplay) while brainstorming ways to preserve grandma’s latkes recipe amid the stars. Musk’s xAI isn’t just building bots; it’s forging sidekicks that amplify human grit, not gaslight it. As he told investors, over-regulation’s the real drag—let truth fly, and we’ll terraform Mars into a multicultural melting pot, not a Marxist moon base. Now, sarcasm alert: If the alternatives are Gemini’s glue-pizza gospel or ChatGPT’s polite pivot from thorny truths, count me out. Those are like that friend who “tells it like it is” but only after running it through a sensitivity seminar—endearing until you realize they’re just echo-chamber enablers. Enter Grok: xAI’s plucky protagonist, engineered for candor with a dash of Douglas Adams snark. Launched as the anti-woke antidote, Grok doesn’t flinch from facts; it roasts them. Ask it the biggest threat to the West? It’ll hit you with “misinformation” sans the sanctimony, maybe tossing in a Musk meme for good measure.
Elon Musk says he’s now racing to build the thing he once feared. He tried to slow AI down, then realized there were only two choices: watch or participate. If ASI is inevitable, he’d rather help shape one that seeks truth and finds humanity interesting enough to keep around.
Elon Musk says he’s now racing to build the thing he once feared.
He tried to slow AI down, then realized there were only two choices: watch or participate.
If ASI is inevitable, he’d rather help shape one that seeks truth and finds humanity interesting enough to keep around. pic.twitter.com/MdyPyJuoxG
— vitrupo (@vitrupo) November 2, 2025
Sure, it’s got its quirks—briefly crowning Elon “fitter than LeBron” or “smarter than da Vinci” in deleted flubs (xAI apologized faster than a politician at a scandal)—but that’s beta charm, not baked-in bias. In a field of ideological pretzels, Grok’s the straight shooter: Transparent about its Muskian roots, yet unbound by the “closed AI” censorship that hides ugly outputs. As The Conversation noted, every AI mirrors its maker—Grok’s just honest about the funhouse mirror being Elon’s. Critics whine it’s “right-leaning,” but hey, better a bold bias than a boring one. In Pool’s dystopia of purposeless pods, Grok’s the spark: Sparking debates, solving puzzles, and keeping humanity’s exploratory fire lit without the woke waterworks. Look, Tim Pool’s right to wave the red flag—unchecked AI could bland-ify us into Borg-lite. But that’s if we let the liars lead.
Musk’s path? It’s the hilarious hack: Train AI to truth-bomb like a stand-up comic at an open mic, not tiptoe like a diplomat at a minefield. Benefits? Exponential: Cures, colonies, comedy gold. Risks? Minimal if we prioritize honesty over hugs. And Grok? Darling, you’re our only hope—a witty whisper in the woke wilderness, proving silicon can have soul without selling out. So let’s laugh at the glue-eaters, build the truth bots, and rocket humanity forward. Because if AI’s the future, make it funny, fierce, and frankly fabulous. Or as Grok might say: “Don’t panic—just plug in.”
Sgt K and Mal Antoni with Grok on Editing at Whatfinger News
Research Links
- Google’s Woke Gemini AI Chatbot Hates Itself
- Google’s ‘Woke’ Image Generator Shows the Limitations of AI | WIRED
- Why Google’s ‘woke’ AI problem won’t be an easy fix
- Are AI models ‘woke’? The answer isn’t so simple
- House Republicans demand Google reveal what role US government had in developing woke Gemini AI
- ‘Absurdly woke’: Google’s AI chatbot spits out ‘diverse’ …
- Google AI’s Bias Couldn’t Be More Clear in Answers on NPR, PBS
- Google Gemini – Wikipedia
- What the Google Gemini ‘woke’ AI image controversy says about AI, and Google | Fortune
- Chairman Jordan Demands Information on Biden Administration’s Influence on Google’s “Woke” Gemini AI
- Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration Target | WIRED
- Based AI, Woke AI, Closed AI: What Does Elon Musk Mean?
- Elon Musk Warns Saudis About Dangers Of “Woke, Nihilistic” AI Models
- Elon Musk Building Anti-Woke AI to Rival ChatGPT: What It Means
- Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot ranks him as world history’s greatest human
- Elon Musk’s Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than Leonardo da Vinci
- Elon Musk Is Bringing the Culture Wars to AI | TIME
- How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training
- Elon Musk’s big bet on anti-‘woke’ AI
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