Happy Holidays! It’s time for the annual Telsa holiday update, that wonderful time of year when your expensive car gets a few new Easter eggs to distract you from thinking about where all those dollars went. This year’s update includes all the requisite camera tricks, Christmas-themed light shows, and other types of silly key sounds, but for 2025 Tesla has added something truly new to its cars: Grok, the AI assistant from Tesla’s sister company xAI.
Tesla and xAI share a CEO in Elon Musk, who has put much of his recent focus on the Grok chatbot. He is interfered with the bot’s code to make it spit racist and anti-Semitic stuffyield unsubstantiated nonsense about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa for no reason whatsoevertell that to everyone Musk himself is in better shape than top athletes and smarter than the greats of historyAnd release random people’s home addresses to anyone who asks. Recently it even solved the famous trolley problem by saying so it would rather overwhelm nearly a billion children than hurt its dear father Elon. Now you can ask that same chatbot for directions, according the company’s announcement on don’t call it Twitter. Neat!
It is not really clear what the added value is here
Grok isn’t exactly known for its accuracy, so take everything in your car with a grain of salt. But it’s in Teslas now, so we’ll likely see in the coming days and weeks whether it has any adverse effects on route planning – and whether the AI’s easily overcome behavioral walls pose any safety risk. In the meantime, Tesla owners might want to use it as a conversation exercise this upcoming holiday before showing up at Christmas with that one uncle you really wish your family would just call it quits.
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