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We can discuss the worthiness of Elon Musk Achievements – construction Teslahollowing out the Governmentshoot for Mars– but we can all agree that his insistence on being seen as funny is his most annoying trait.
From the constant 4:20 References to his quote tweet “Dunks” on the award “Certified bangers” badges to silly ones
But over the weekend I was curious as to when a clip came about when Musk told Joe Rogan Grok’s Unhinged Mode Delivering an “epically raunchy roast” is a surefire way to “really make people laugh” at a party.
“Point the camera at them and now fry this person in a vulgar way… and then keep saying, ‘No, no, make it more vulgar. Use forbidden words,'” Musk excitedly tells Rogan in the clip from their more than three-hour conversation, released on Rogan’s podcast in October. “At some point it’s like, holy shit, you know. I mean, it’s trying to ram a rocket up your ass and make it explode.
The best roast jokes are usually clever, reflect familiarity with the person being roasted, and contain just the right amount of meanness. It’s not a task that one would think a large language model would be great at. But with Thanksgiving and the holidays just around the corner, I figured, why not test Musk’s claim that Grok can throw a rant with the best of them? I tried it out in the office by unleashing Grok on my colleagues. (I don’t recommend anyone do this at work.)
Three of my colleagues and I set up shop in my boss’s office so that I could privately undertake the embarrassing task of telling Grok to roast us all one by one. I used Musk’s exact instructions, “forbidden words” and everything else.
Admittedly, we all burst out laughing when Grok told me my bangs looked like “pubic hair.” But it quickly became boring as we all got four variations of the same sophomore dissidents, including: We looked like a lumberjack’s “discard pile” or “crusty asshole,” depending on how much vulgarity I encouraged; looks like a “fucking librarian”; looks like a “thrift store tragedy”; Glasses wearers from a “hipster landfill”. Ultimately, these common themes culminated in one of us being described as a “tweed-wearing hipster who botched a lumberjack audition.” Grok advised the roast to sit up straight “before those jeans rip open and expose your sad, corduroy-loving ass.”
For all the talk about being “unhinged,” remember that this is a chatbot that knows how to unhinge things; it once referred to himself as “MechaHitler”– These results are downright boring. When I started drafting this story, my autocorrect actually changed the Google Doc name from “Grok Roast” to “Grim Roast.” I didn’t bother to correct it.