Elon Musk’s party trick with Grok backfires as Joe Rogan clip goes viral for all the wrong reasons

AUSTIN, TEXAS: A resurfaced clip from 'The Joe Rogan Experience' has sent Elon Musk trending again, but not for the reasons the tech mogul might have hoped.

The October episode, which ran more than three hours, featured Musk explaining how partygoers could use Grok, his X-owned AI chatbot, to “have a good time.”

Elon Musk touts Grok’s 'roast' mode in viral Joe Rogan clip

In the resurfaced viral clip posted by @teslaownersSV, Elon Musk enthusiastically pitched Grok as the ultimate party entertainment tool.

“If you want to have a good time, or make people really laugh at a party, you can use Grok,” Musk told Joe Rogan. The billionaire added that users could snap a picture of someone and prompt the chatbot to produce a “vulgar roast,” then keep pushing it to become “more vulgar” with even “forbidden words.”

 He called Grok’s unhinged mode perfect for quick, chaotic humor. At least, that was the plan.

The clip quickly racked up over 7.2 million views, and users accepted Musk’s challenge, just not in the direction he expected.

Grok users fire back with brutal Elon Musk AI roasts

Within hours, X users began uploading screenshots of Grok’s roasts with Musk as the target.

One user posted a still from the Rogan clip and asked Grok to “do the most vulgar possible roast of this guy.” The AI did not hold back, opening by calling Musk a “meme-lord man-child” before launching into insults too graphic to publish. 

Another user asked Grok to “do an epic unhinged roast of Elon,” and the bot delivered again, this time joking that Musk had “more ex-wives than successful Cybertruck launches.”

Screenshots spread across the platform showing Grok taking aim at Musk, his appearance, his former wives, and even his children. Many of the responses were so explicit that users warned followers before posting them.

Others used humor to mock Musk’s idea of a good party.

“Nothing says I’m a funny person like pulling out my phone and asking a robot to make jokes for me,” one user wrote.  

Another quipped, “What kind of parties do you go to? Mine are usually delicious food and good music.”

One person commented, “never gets invited to party ever again.” Another said, “Roasting someone for the way they look is the lowest form of comedy.” 

Another added, “I thinks Thats not Nice. Couldnt do it.” Another wrote, “Or you could work on creating your own wit and sarcasm and sense of humor instead of having one artificially generated for you.”

Grok under fire for viral deleted claims praising Elon Musk

The moment comes amid broader scrutiny of Grok after several viral interactions showed the bot praising Elon Musk in bizarre, exaggerated ways.

In one now-deleted exchange, Grok claimed Musk “edges out” NBA legend LeBron James in “holistic fitness,” despite acknowledging James “dominates in raw athleticism.”

According to The Guardian, Grok also suggested Musk was funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, could beat Mike Tyson in a fight, and would rise from the dead faster than Jesus, all of which were later removed from the platform.

Musk addressed the situation directly, writing on X that Grok had been “unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me.”

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