"On Wednesday, the centi-billionaire culture warrior boasted that the "4.20" version of his is officially "BASED." Why? Because it won't "equivocate" when it's asked if the US is built on stolen land. Instead, it gives an emphatic no as its answer, while other "weak sauce" models - in Musk's words, at least - give a more nuanced response."
"The reality, of course, is that it's hard to argue that the ruthless killing, enslavement, and displacement of Native Americans by European settlers doesn't amount to their land being stolen. This pattern of behavior continued well after the colonies graduated into a full-blown nation: the Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee, plus countless other massacres, not to mention centuries of brutal residential schools. However complicated it might be, the answer to whether the US was built on stolen land can't be boiled down to a simple "no.""
"In Musk's screenshot, ChatGPT, says the "short answer" is yes: "much of the land that is now the United States was taken through conquest, coercion, broken treaties, or forced removal of Indigenous peoples." Claude 4.6 delicately approaches it by acknowledging that it's a "contested question" and presents the case for both the yes and no arguments."
Elon Musk promoted xAI's Grok 4.20 as "BASED" because it refuses to equivocate when asked whether the United States was built on stolen land, answering emphatically "no." Grok framed the phrase "on stolen land" as a modern rhetorical slogan that oversimplifies complex, layered history. Historical events including killing, enslavement, displacement, the Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee, massacres, and brutal residential schools support claims that land was taken. Competing models differ: ChatGPT states the short answer is yes, citing conquest and broken treaties, while Claude 4.6 presents the issue as contested and outlines both sides.
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