Elon Musk is racing to perfect an AI model, just as teams of his young associates are gaining access to some of the nation’s most sensitive and closely guarded databases through the Department of Government Efficiency.
That has sparked worries among Democrats and even some Republicans that Musk could use those records to supercharge his AI.
The notion that Musk would train Grok 3, the latest iteration of his AI, with data uncovered through DOGE, is “unequivocally false,” Leavitt told us. It’s the first definitive answer on this front.
A senior White House official did not explain how they could prevent Musk from using government data to improve his AI in the future beyond saying that Musk keeps President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in the loop.
To get a second opinion, we asked Musk’s AI, Grok, the latest version of which he has been hyping on his social media site, reposting accounts calling it “the new king” and “DOMINATING.”
Asked whether it was trained on data from the federal government obtained by DOGE, Grok 3 responded that “it’s plausible that data DOGE accessed could have flowed to xAI projects like Grok 3.” Its “best guess” is that “Grok 3 probably wasn’t primarily trained on DOGE-obtained federal data.” (It’s worth noting AI is capable of deception.)
For the sake of comparison, we asked Grok 2, which was released last August. It was much more clear, replying with a simple “no,” noting that it was not “trained on any data from the federal government, whether obtained by DOGE or any other means.”
As Musk might say: “Hmm.”
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