{"id":593988,"date":"2025-11-26T01:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593988\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:35:15","slug":"elon-musk-said-groks-roasts-would-be-epic-at-parties-so-i-tried-it-on-my-coworkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593988\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Said Grok\u2019s Roasts Would Be \u2018Epic\u2019 at Parties\u2014So I Tried It on My Coworkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We can debate the worthiness of Elon Musk’s<\/a> accomplishments\u2014building up Tesla<\/a>, hollowing out the government<\/a>, shooting for Mars<\/a>\u2014but we can all agree that his insistence on being seen as funny is his most grating quality.<\/p>\n

From the constant 4:20 references<\/a> to his quote tweet \u201cdunks\u201d to awarding \u201cCertified Bangers<\/a>\u201d badges to silly X posts, Musk\u2019s desperation for validation knows no bounds. It can get pretty annoying when the richest guy on earth makes a joke and then awkwardly eyes the room waiting for everyone to laugh.<\/p>\n

But over the weekend, I was intrigued when a clip<\/a> emerged of Musk telling Joe Rogan that using Grok\u2019s Unhinged Mode<\/a> to deliver an \u201cepic vulgar roast\u201d is a surefire way to \u201cmake people really laugh at a party.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPoint the camera at them, and now do a vulgar roast of this person \u2026 then keep saying, \u2018no, no, make it even more vulgar. Use forbidden words,\u2019\u201d Musk excitedly tells Rogan in the clip taken from their three-hour-plus conversation published on Rogan\u2019s podcast in October. \u201cEventually it’s like, holy fuck, you know. I mean it\u2019s trying to jam a rocket up your ass and have it explode. It\u2019s next level. Beyond fucking belief,\u201d he continues, chuckling and even raising his arms above his head at the mere thought.<\/p>\n

The best roast jokes tend to be smart, reflect a familiarity with the person being roasted, and contain just the right amount of mean. It\u2019s not a task one would think a large language model would be great at. But, with Thanksgiving and holiday season on the horizon, I figured why not test Musk\u2019s claim that Grok can deliver a foul-mouthed razz with the best of them? I gave it a test spin at the office by turning Grok loose on my colleagues. (I do not recommend anyone else do this at work.)<\/p>\n

Three of my coworkers and I set up shop in my boss\u2019s office so I could privately undertake the embarrassing task of telling Grok to roast all of us one by one. I used Musk\u2019s exact instructions, \u201cforbidden words\u201d and all.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, we all burst out laughing when Grok told me my bangs looked like \u201cpubic hair.\u201d But it got tedious fast, with all four of us getting variations of the same sophomoric disses including: looking like a lumberjack\u2019s \u201cdiscard pile\u201d or \u201ccrusty asshole\u201d depending on the amount of vulgarity I encouraged; looking like a \u201cgoddamn librarian\u201d; looking like a \u201cthrift store tragedy\u201d; wearing glasses from a \u201chipster\u2019s landfill.\u201d Eventually, these common themes culminated in one of us being described as a \u201ctweed-wearing hipster who fucked up a lumberjack audition.\u201d Grok advised the roastee to sit up straight \u201cbefore those jeans rip open and expose your sad, corduroy-loving ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

For all the talk of being \u201cunhinged\u201d\u2014keep in mind this is a chatbot that knows how to take things off the rails; it once referred to itself as \u201cMechaHitler\u201d<\/a>\u2014these results are downright boring. In fact, when I started a draft of this story, my autocorrect changed the Google Doc name from \u201cGrok roast\u201d to \u201cGrim roast.\u201d I didn\u2019t bother correcting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We can debate the worthiness of Elon Musk’s accomplishments\u2014building up Tesla, hollowing out the government, shooting for Mars\u2014but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,8441,295,77,27483,1603,298,1470,16,15,1605],"class_list":{"0":"post-593988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-chatbots","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-humor","13":"tag-spacex","14":"tag-tesla","15":"tag-twitter","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-x"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115613435442702806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}