How Elon Musk is remaking Grok in his image

Elon Musk has said Grok, the AI-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be “politically neutral” and “maximally truth-seeking.”

But in practice, Musk and his artificial intelligence company, xAI, have tweaked the chatbot to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to an analysis of thousands of its responses by The New York Times. The shifts appear, in some cases, to reflect Musk’s political priorities.

Grok is similar to tools such as ChatGPT, but it also lives on X, giving the social network’s users the opportunity to…