Elon Musk Raises Eyebrows With Bold Plan to Rewrite the Internet

Elon Musk has never been shy about disrupting established systems, and now he says it's time to overhaul humanity's collective knowledge, one chatbot at a time.

In a late-night post on X (formerly Twitter) Friday, Musk announced plans to retrain his artificial intelligence platform, Grok, using a rewritten version of what he called the "entire corpus of human knowledge." 

The goal: to strip out what he deems inaccurate or biased information and build a cleaner, corrected foundation.

“We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors," Musk wrote on X. "Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."

We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.

Then retrain on that.

Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2025

The statement is Musk's latest shot at mainstream AI models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which he's long criticized for reflecting what he sees as "woke" or ideologically slanted training data. 

With Grok, Musk's xAI is trying to offer what he views as a less filtered, more "truth-focused" alternative. In a follow-up post, he asked users to reply with examples of "divisive facts" that could help retrain the model.

Critics aren't convinced. 

NYU professor emeritus Gary Marcus, a longtime skeptic of AI hype, compared Musk's move to something out of Orwell’s 1984. "You couldn’t get Grok to align with your own personal beliefs, so you are going to rewrite history to make it conform to your views," Marcus wrote on X.

Straight out of 1984.

You couldn’t get Grok to align with your own personal beliefs so you are going to rewrite history to make it conform to your views.

— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) June 21, 2025

Grok has already made headlines—some of them controversial. In May, the chatbot mistakenly referenced "white genocide" in South Africa after what xAI called an "unauthorized modification" to its backend. The company said it conducted a thorough investigation and promised changes to improve transparency.

Despite that, Grok is slowly being adopted in high-level circles. 

A Reuters report in May claimed parts of the Department of Homeland Security had started experimenting with the bot to analyze government data, though the agency later clarified that it had not endorsed any particular AI tool.

Musk's push to retrain Grok on a revised reality may raise philosophical questions, but it's clear he's not content to let existing knowledge stand unchallenged. Whether the world follows his version remains to be seen.

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