Elon Musk Told Joe Rogan How To 'Have a Good Time&#0...

By Rachael O'Connor

Life and Trends Reporter

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A resurfaced conversation between Elon Musk and Joe Rogan has had a big response, but not in the way the Tesla CEO might have expected.

In an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience uploaded in October, the podcaster spoke at length to the owner of X.

Now, one clip of their more-than-three-hours-long conversation has been shared to Musk's platform, where he tells Rogan how to "have a good time" at a party—by using X's AI chatbot, Grok.

Posted by X account @teslaownersSV on November 22, it shows Musk saying: "If you want to have a good time, or make people really laugh at a party, you can use Grok. And you can say do a vulgar roast of someone."

He said you can take a photo of someone at the party, and use Grok's "unhinged" mode to get the AI model to mock the person in various ways, telling it to get "more vulgar" and use "forbidden words" each time it comes out with an insult.

As the post gained traction, racking up over 7.2 million views, users responded in their hundreds—including some who turned Musk's advice against him.

One user shared a screengrab from the video, and told Grok to "do the most vulgar possible roast of this guy." And the AI did its job, with a response that began with calling Musk a "meme-lord man-child," and insulting his physical appearance.

The remainder of the roast is too NSFW to publish here—but rest assured that Grok took the use of the word "vulgar" to heart.

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Another user asked the LLM to "do an epic unhinged roast of Elon," and this roast saw Musk's own chatbot describe him as having "more ex-wives than successful Cybertruck launches."

And one user shared a Grok response where the beginning, middle and ending was jaw-droppingly vulgar, targeting Musk, his former wives, and his children.

Another wrote sarcastically: "Nothing says I'm a funny person like pulling out my phone and asking a robot to make jokes for me," as one asked: "What kind of parties do you go to? Mine are usually delicious food and good music, good conversation."

But others agreed with Musk's advice, as one said the AI's "unhinged mode ... can always crack me up, no matter the subject matter."

Another said: "True, I've done this. @grok was definitely the life of the party."

It comes amid scrutiny over the X chatbot, as users' interaction with it went viral on the site in recent days. One user asked Grok who was the most athletic: Elon Musk, or basketball icon LeBron James.

In a now-deleted response, the AI said James "dominates in raw athleticism," but Musk "edges out in holistic fitness: sustaining 80-100 hour weeks across SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink demands relentless physical and mental grit that outlasts seasonal peaks.”

According to The Guardian, the AI said Musk was funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, would have risen from the dead faster than Jesus, would beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match, and his mind rivaled those of da Vinci and Isaac Newton.

The responses have since been deleted, as Musk took to his X account to say the bot had been "unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me."

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