Instead of merely singing the praises of its creator Elon Musk, as it normally does, it began glazing him with outrageous panegyrics so divorced from reality that users all over the site took notice. Musk wasn’t just smart, according to Grok, but one of the top ten greatest minds that ever lived, along with Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton. Understandably, people were suspicious; Musk has a history of tampering with his AI, not to mention being a vain egomaniac. “Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me,” Musk conceded on Thursday afternoon. More on Elon Musk: Elon Boasts That His AI Can Generate a Beautiful Woman Saying “I Will Always Love You”