Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Join me and my guest Matt Johnson to find out:

• What Grok has in common with turn-of-the-20th-century tsarist propaganda
• The 3 Jewish-adjacent facts that make it okay for Elon Musk to joke about Jews
• Why LLMs sometimes become MechaHitler, but never CyberMao

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