Mark Cuban Fact-Checks Unhinged Elon Conspiracy Using Elon’s Own Tech

Elon Musk on Sunday embraced a racist and wildly conspiratorial election concept ― solely to get fact-checked by fellow billionaire Mark Cuban, who used Musk’s personal AI chatbot to do the job.

Musk, who’s endorsed Donald Trump and was once rumored to be donating $45 million a month to a pro-Trump tremendous PAC, claimed Sunday that the previous president “is the one solution to save” democracy from immigrants.

“Only a few Individuals notice that, if Trump is NOT elected, this would be the final election,” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform that’s lost nearly 80% of its value since he took over.

He then asserted, with none proof, that Democrats are flying immigrants “instantly into swing states” who’re then “fast-tracked to citizenship” for the aim of altering the result of the election.

Noncitizens should first spend no less than 5 years as a lawful everlasting resident earlier than they’re sometimes eligible for naturalization, that means Musk’s conspiracy would have needed to start through the Trump administration to bear any significant fruit. (The median number of years within the U.S. for residents naturalized in 2023 was truly longer: seven years.)

And in accordance with the Division of Homeland Safety, the highest 10 states the place individuals who have been naturalized final 12 months reside are: California (not a swing state), Texas (not a swing state), Florida (not likely), New York (completely not), New Jersey (additionally solidly blue), Illinois (nuh-uh), Washington (strive once more), Pennsylvania (the one one), Massachusetts (blue) and Virginia (debatable).

9-tenths of these usually are not swing states. Pennsylvania, the lone exception, solely accounted for two.8% of these naturalized in 2023. Greater than 50% reside in California, Texas, Florida and New York.

Undeterred by details, Musk predicted that, if Trump loses, “there will probably be no extra swing states” and “Democracy is over.” (Relatedly, Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden each individually deported extra individuals than Donald Trump.)

Musk’s rant additionally caught the attention of Mark Cuban, who fact-checked Musk utilizing Twitter’s personal “anti-woke” AI chatbot Grok, which Musk concocted after discovering rivals have been too politically liberal.

“Hey [Elon Musk], really recognize the work you may have completed with [Grok].” Cuban wrote to Musk in a public message. “It’s an effective way to factcheck you.”

Cuban then shared a hyperlink to Grok’s prolonged evaluation of Musk’s declare.

The chatbot concluded that Musk’s xenophobic concept “comprises exaggerated claims and speculative fears relatively than factual evaluation,” and was “introduced in an alarmist and overly deterministic method.”

Earlier, Cuban additionally publicly known as out Musk’s servility to Trump and warned it could by no means be repaid.

“Elon, there’ll come a time while you want one thing from Donald Trump,” he wrote. “You’ll assume you’ll have earned the correct to ask and obtain. You’ve gotten been a loyal, devoted soldier for him. You’ve gotten supported him politically with 10s of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.

“Then, on the level you want him essentially the most, you’ll discover out what so many earlier than you may have discovered, his loyalty is just to himself.”