Trump's nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk's Grok
The Trump administration’s website for its new dietary guidelines directs users to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to ask questions about nutrition.
Grok’s placement on the government website realfood.gov follows uproar over the chatbot’s creation of millions of sexualized deepfakes of women and children in late December and its spouting of racist and antisemitic content last summer.
Other government agencies are also using the chatbot made by xAI, Musk’s AI company, but the prominent placement of Grok on realfood.gov over the weekend appears to be one of the first instances of the federal government pointing online visitors to Musk’s chatbot.
The setup raises questions about how Musk could be benefiting from the government’s use of Grok. It’s also not clear how the chatbot was trained for a government context, if at all, or if users should take its outputs as government recommendations or endorsements.
After Nextgov/FCW on Monday sent the administration questions about the placement of Grok on the site, it was changed so that it no longer called Grok out by name. Previously, it said, “Use Grok to get real answers about real food.”
Now, it directs users to use “AI,” but the portal still takes users to grok.com.
https://www.govexec.com/technology/2026/02/trumps-nutrition-website-directs-users-elon-musks-grok/411332/
