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Musk Confirms That Tesla Will Add 'Hey, Grok' Wake Word

stekene | 2025-07-18 15:49 | 145 views

> Elon Musk stated on X that Grok will soon be able to be activated on Tesla vehicles with the “Hey, Grok” wake word. The conversational assistant will feel even more human-like by having it respond to its own name.

Comments (85)
asdf2k7 2025-07-18 15:52

so it’s always listening…

razor_train 2025-07-18 15:53

"Hey Grok, I'm stuck in this traffic jam. Which race of people are to blame for it?"

jason12745 2025-07-18 15:55

The headline is the only fact in the entire article. The rest is a bunch of made up bullshit. I hate the internet some days.

repostit_ 2025-07-18 16:04

Author has a weekly quota to fill.

MorgessaMonstrum 2025-07-18 16:08

Will it also respond to MechaHitler?

judgeysquirrel 2025-07-18 16:08

Hey grok, where is the nearest neo-nazi meeting?

y4udothistome 2025-07-18 16:09

I bet

y4udothistome 2025-07-18 16:11

He’s blowing up his stock earnings are coming out next week gotta blowing it up. The funny thing is it doesn’t matter his full self driving is shit he’s got grok

jpk195 2025-07-18 16:11

If we can’t trust ecency.com anymore - who can we trust?

tony3841 2025-07-18 16:16

Has grok said the N word yet?

BilboBodigity 2025-07-18 16:17

Just remember to use "Heil" instead of "Hey" and the cameras expect a salute instead of saying "yes"...

Typical_Doubt_9762 2025-07-18 16:20

Heil Grok instead of Hey Grok

AgentSmith187 2025-07-18 16:22

Nah hes old school its the Jews that are responsible for everything bad......

AgentSmith187 2025-07-18 16:23

Here is my recommendation and here's the others is the response I bet.

luv2block 2025-07-18 16:26

Grok is such a stupid name. I'm surprised he didn't call it "Elon's Penis" so that everyone has to ask "Hey Elon's Penis, what time is it?"

[deleted] 2025-07-18 16:26

This could hardly be more subjective but I feel like "Hey google", "hey gemini", "hey siri" etc already a bit shit but "hey grok" is even worse Having said this, I'm just bitter we don't all go "Computer....run diagnostic" *working, no issues found* like in star trek. It's a computer, I should say computer to make it computer stuff

babypho 2025-07-18 16:31

Hey Grok, why did one of Elon's kid disown him?

Yodawithboobs 2025-07-18 16:32

The name sounds so archaic, just like Elmos brain.

Dry_Care_5477 2025-07-18 16:33

"gay cock"

CrazyButRightOn 2025-07-18 16:37

Think of how intelligent we will all get chatting with a supercomputer everyday during our commutes. It excites me to no end.

Dude008 2025-07-18 16:38

I want to try that 😂

penkster 2025-07-18 16:43

Elmo keepin it real by pushing features literally no one has ever asked for, nor wants.

Engunnear 2025-07-18 16:45

ecency has no decency.

ctiger12 2025-07-18 16:46

Ain’t he anti-woke?

relentlessoldman 2025-07-18 16:47

Original

Current_Tea6984 2025-07-18 16:49

Heinlein is archaic?

noodleexchange 2025-07-18 17:00

“What’s the most fascist route to take?”

noodleexchange 2025-07-18 17:00

VERY good ^

Ed-Sanz 2025-07-18 17:03

“Now calling ICE…”

Withnail2019 2025-07-18 17:04

So you can talk bollocks to an inferior LLM, wonderful. That should make the car much better.

mybreakfastiscold 2025-07-18 17:06

Hague Rock

Withnail2019 2025-07-18 17:07

You can do that with Alexa, change it to 'computer'.

Goldenchyyld 2025-07-18 17:12

Only if you ask nicely

[deleted] 2025-07-18 17:16

Ooh damn, I backed the wrong evil company but TIL

[deleted] 2025-07-18 17:17

It’s taken from Stranger in a Strange land. Not the Iron Maiden song

ConversationPale8665 2025-07-18 17:18

Who the fuck asked for this?

Greenpoint_Blank 2025-07-18 17:30

The thing I hate most about these tech bro dipshits like Musk, is they do not understand the Sci-fi and fantasy they engage with. Robert Heinlein must be rolling in his grave.

zitrored 2025-07-18 17:36

I thought Tesla investors and Musk already decided to essentially abandon their EV and customers? “It’s all about robotaxi and robots”. Why would anyone care about this feature?

GrapeFew1860 2025-07-18 17:38

Seriously?

Beezelbubba 2025-07-18 17:42

Only when you ask it to rap it.

Tofru 2025-07-18 17:49

How else can it train it's LLM? it's sucked up all other data, if you want new versions it needs new data. That's why openAI are developing a new internet browser to try and suck up that juicy end user data. THE AI MACHINE NEEDS FEEDING.

Tofru 2025-07-18 17:50

Hey Elon Mosque, set the nearest baby clinic and go.

theartandscience 2025-07-18 17:51

Will Grok respond with “Jawohl?”

[deleted] 2025-07-18 17:51

Much grok so human

thenayr 2025-07-18 17:55

Not enough, Elon still working to fix that!

Weird-Ad7562 2025-07-18 18:09

How awful.

secretlyjudging 2025-07-18 18:18

Hey Grok, take me to the tip of penis shaped geofenced area

Horny4theEnvironment 2025-07-18 18:29

*Only in the USA* If you're Canadian, you won't have MechaHitler riding shotgun... Yet

sniksniksnek 2025-07-18 18:31

Can we talk about how ridiculously dumb it is to name a product "Grok"? I've only ever heard the most insufferable "um actually" pedantic neckbeard tech dudes ever use that word in conversation. Yes, I know it's from Stranger in a Strange Land.

KnucklesMcGee 2025-07-18 18:47

Wow, seems like another great disincentive to buy a Tesla. So goddamned sick of every other tech firm trying to force their AIs on me if I use a service.

sidc42 2025-07-18 19:11

And at the same time also years behind other auto manufacturers that have already implemented this. Source: My Toyota responds to "Hey Toyota."

sidc42 2025-07-18 19:14

Elon did. It allows him to funnel money out of Tesla, a company he only owns 13% of, into his money losing ventures that he's the primary owner of.

[deleted] 2025-07-18 19:47

So musk definitely will not be collecting data, by monitoring everything single thing that is said in the car,

[deleted] 2025-07-18 19:49

Will you be able to change it's voice to some sort of sinister comedy camp German voice, typified by BBC comedies in the 70's and 80's?

[deleted] 2025-07-18 19:51

I find it somewhat hilarious that technology has taken on a personality, and that personality is probally the worst type in all of history, I mean it literally couldn't be any worse, unless it maybe the pedo Herbert from family guy

[deleted] 2025-07-18 19:54

And is super cheap to implement, that's the most important, must keep that unit price down, and if you can dress it up as being brilliant, even better, hey instead of the normal information cluster in front of the driver, and physical buttons and stuff, I'm just gonna put a tablet in the middle that will run everything, genius, which tbf, musk is a kind of genius

[deleted] 2025-07-18 19:56

Not sure heinlein could be described as archaic, I've read a lot of his works when I was younger, decades ago when they were still in print, they had some err, uncommon attitudes to sex, shall we say

StellarJayZ 2025-07-18 20:04

Grock is the cybertruck of AI.

SiteRelEnby 2025-07-18 20:12

Driving past teslas with open windows shouting "Hey Grok, play [redacted]!"

[deleted] 2025-07-18 20:15

‘Heil Grok’ works too

sik_dik 2025-07-18 20:19

I was playing music in the car, and my kid was singing along…and he said the n-word. I was mortified. I thought I’ve got to stop playing this whole genre, which is a shame, because I LOVE country music -Jimmy Carr

Lyf3_Dk 2025-07-18 20:20

"Pull the lever Grok." *Car dies*

Current_Tea6984 2025-07-18 20:35

I read Stranger in a Strange Land when I was a young pup. I liked it at the time, but don't remember much about it except the concept of "grok". It's a shame to see someone like Elon appropriate it.

Cronotyr 2025-07-18 21:05

“Hey, Mecha Hitler”, you mean.

totpot 2025-07-18 21:32

"Redirecting to the nearest Tesla service center"

asdf2k7 2025-07-18 21:45

no such thing as a free lunch

GiveMeSomeShu-gar 2025-07-18 22:44

"Hey Grok, I need directions to the nearest grocery store and also, who are the greatest leaders of the white race aside from Hitler?"

Basement_Chicken 2025-07-18 23:30

It must've been a typo: "Heil Grok!" is the right one, the far right one!

happymancry 2025-07-19 00:00

It makes me sad because the word “grok” originated from one of my favorite sci fi books ever - Stranger in a Strange Land by RL Heinlein. It means to understand, absorb, comprehend (like a culture). As always, Elon steals something great, slaps his label on it, and ruins it.

Herban_Myth 2025-07-19 00:02

Only if you ask it siriusly

brezhnervouz 2025-07-19 00:24

MobileHitler ftw 🙄

lukegao 2025-07-19 00:30

Why not "Hey Elon"

judgeysquirrel 2025-07-19 01:01

Lol. A little sad I didn't come up with this one.

[deleted] 2025-07-19 01:26

I mean, 64 years ago is getting close to being called old, right?

[deleted] 2025-07-19 01:28

AI will make us dumber, not smarter.

Current_Tea6984 2025-07-19 01:32

Yeah, but maybe not archaic

[deleted] 2025-07-19 01:35

Fair enough. It's not "very old"

BootThang 2025-07-19 02:20

What a shitty word choice, “Grok”. Figures

Sensitive_Ad_7420 2025-07-19 05:19

I’d rather drive a old car that doesn’t listen to me

Zaponline 2025-07-19 06:16

When will Ara remember past conversations? I tell her my name, and next trip she forgets. Any future plans to implement memory?

Federal_Flow_3877 2025-07-19 08:22

Alternately, a Sieg Heil will do.

ThePensiveE 2025-07-19 13:44

So is this going to work on just the new Teslas or is he going to brick all the old ones he already admitted can't handle the software they have already?

bonapartista 2025-07-19 14:15

Heil Grok, fix wipers.

Oo_Juice_oO 2025-07-19 15:03

Now that I think about it, I can't remember the last time I had any wiper issues.

CoolTomatoh 2025-07-19 20:45

What a stupid name, so is Elon

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