I trust Grok as much as any other AI. What exactly is the history i should be concerned about?

It called itself "mecha hitler".

Ask Grok about it or read the other comments.

Do you outsource all of your thinking and argumentation to LLMs and other people?

Yep, when there is no point to answer insincere questions.

I use it because its gives a good balance between intelligence, latency and cost

I won't claim to know everything about its history - I don't know any history about _most_ of the products I use

The 2 main criticisms I see of Grok are the Mechahitler comment and the CSAM image generation

on mechahitler - I'm no expert but if I remember correctly it didn't just do that unprompted, it was specifically asked to be politically incorrect. It's definitely bad taste to say the least but the guardrails were quickly tightened as a response

on CSAM - Again, X quickly stopped Grok from generating images of people in bikinis (which as I understand was the underlying problem). I never personally saw anything that I would consider CSAM (nude or obviously underage people rendered naked or scantily clad)

So these aren't dealbreakers for me and I'm not aware of any other high profile issues or incidents

The nature of LLMs is that an adversarial prompt will make the model output something inappropriate or outrage-worthy, and that's amplified 1000 fold for Grok because people are primed to criticise Must so will jump on any opportunity