Why is Elon Musk's Grok chatbot so unfunny?

Do you trust this man to know a good joke? | Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Fine. Let's talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever. xAI is, according to some commentators, Elon Musk's bid to "save X," the platform better known as Twitter. Musk may have spectacularly struck out with advertisers and failed to make up the shortfall with subscriptions, the thinking goes, but he can fundraise off the hype of a new AI product currently available only to a ...