Whether it’s being accused of damaging the workforce or the planet, artificial intelligence is already a lightning rod for controversy. Now that outrage even extends to the logo of a popular AI tool, which some are calling a secret anti-Christian symbol.
The social media platform X, owned by tech mogul Elon Musk, recently made its AI tool, Grok, free to use for all users. This announcement also served as the debut for Grok’s new logo, a slanted X, which has since gone viral – but not for the reasons its designers likely wanted.
That's because many saw an upside-down and broken cross in the new logo, and accused Musk and X of secretly (or not-so-secretly) promoting Satanism.
A Satanic Symbol?
What do you see? A stylized X, or something darker?
Following the new logo’s debut, critics began drawing comparisons between the Grok logo and a felled cross, and some rushed to social media to share their belief that Grok may represent something much more sinister than it was initially letting on.
Devil in the Details
Many religious folks are fearful that AI may do more harm than good to the world of faith. And with everything from AI-generated faiths to AI priests to a livestreaming AI Jesus to contend with, there’s already enough intrusion of this technology to create serious skepticism in both the pulpit and the pews.
Last year, some faith leaders shared their fear that AI may even be summoning the Mark of the Beast – a sentiment which just ten years ago X CEO Elon Musk seemingly agreed with.
“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” Musk stated in a 2014 speech at MIT cautioning public embrace of AI. “In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like – yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon.”
Then again, there are many who question the CEO's judgment. This week, Musk stirred up controversy during an inauguration speech for President Trump by doing a hand gesture that many have likened to a fascist salute:
Grok: I’m Definitely Not Demonic
While some are convinced that Grok’s new logo is a harbinger of a secret Satanic takeover, there’s one entity decidedly convinced Grok is not Satanic: the AI tool itself.
"In some contexts, a broken cross might be reminiscent of historical or cultural artifacts where crosses are depicted as broken to signify defeat, change, or transformation," Grok explained to the Christian Post. "Here, it might imply that Grok aims to transform or evolve the way AI interacts with humans."
Grok also gave other justifications for why its logo might be an upside-down cross, including the notion that it represents “non-conformity” and “embodies the idea of thinking outside the box or challenging established norms.”
One thing’s for sure, at least according to Grok: Sometimes a logo is just a logo. Just trust it.
What do you think of the logo? Is there a hidden meaning in it, or are skeptics thinking way too deeply about this?
And what about acceptance of artificial intelligence more widely? AI is disrupting nearly every industry on the planet right now, and that extends to the world of organized religion. Should church leaders embrace the change, or is the connection between flock and clergy too sacred to leave any part of it to a machine?
36 comments
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James Riggle-Johnson
I don’t think the X and/or I are reminiscent of a cross, up or down. It’s simply Elon’s obsession with the X logo. It’s funny how so many Christians are always looking for evil in symbolisms and groups of people while true acts of evil are unfolding all around them. I wish they would say something about that.
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Candace Ann Peterson
Most genius are not adept socially. Musk was overly enthusiastic while touching his heart as an offering of love. We watched others do it all night.
His XI is an integration of his platform x and AI, I do not believe that he stands against Mother and Father God. Musk is a social misfit who means well. I like him but I would not want to be him.
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Lawrence Pearce
Just looked in Google translate and this is what I found. After typing in the two letters "xi" it linked it from Greek to the English translation, which is "day."
So "XI" literally means "DAY" in the Greek language! There is no "demon" in the word at all, the only "demons" are in the darkened minds of the superstitious ones who like to look for demons but can never find any angels when they need one! LOL
https://translate.google.com/?sl=el&tl=en&text=xi&op=translate
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Tecla Caryl Loup
I saw the name of the Chinese leader, Xi. Proof positive that Musk is a Chinese plant.
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Lawrence Pearce
You forgot the symbol for sarcasm! /s
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RUTH
It is each of us who create the demons that inhabit our minds then our spirit. It is best to open up to creation and be less judgemental. I don't see a cross, even less a broken one. What I see is the letter Aleph,after the letter Vav, both from the hebrew alphabet, in which each letter carries a special type of energy. The letter Aleph, being the first letter of the alphabet carries the energy of CREATION, as does well used AI, or as a matter of fact the creative genius of Elon Musk. Preceded by the Vav, the sound from that logo could be OH or UH. I will choose the Oh. and complete the idea writing; Oh!! how much good can we do creating with AI, or simply just creating.
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Lionheart
Thank you for that very unbiased, and well educated comment. It’s people like you that make a difference here, Lady Ruth. 🤗
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Cynthia Mandello
To be clear, the term "Grok" comes from the Robert Heinlein book, "Stranger in a Strange Land." Having said that, Trump has already signed orders giving the three major AI platforms over a billion dollars while seeking to cut all programs that would help ALL the fools that voted for him. Trump is the Anti-Christ and Evangelicals bought into the "Great Deceiver's" lies because they WANTED to believe his lies. You can't say you're a Christian while carrying hate in your mouth and heart.
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Lawrence Pearce
In his first term as President, Trump simplified the tax forms and exempted everyone from federal taxes if they earned less than $24,000 a year. Do the top 1 percent earn less than $24,000 a year or did he provide tax relief for the poorest wage earners among us?
An education on the facts can erase and eliminate a whole lot of hatred. You should also know that Trump donated ALL of his Presidential pay every month to a variety of charities, something no other President has ever done. How about exchanging hate for love and sending love to everyone including the President once a day? You know it's the way to creating your own internal happiness.
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Parson Golden
Your adulation for Trump is ignorantly misplaced.
The tax bracket for a single person making $24,000 is 12%, not 0.
Regarding your claims of his donating his salary there is no federal record to indicate that is the truth. While there are photos of checks and sporadic reports from his administration that dollar amounts were given, there is no confirmation from many of the sources that reportedly receive those amounts.
Additionally on Donald Trump’s 2020 tax returns there are no deductions taken for contributions to any organizations which would include his entire last year’s salary.
if you’re going to make blanket statements you really should evaluate the sources from which you find them, learn to check, or do not choose to lie about things that are so easy to fact check.
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James Riggle-Johnson
LP, 24,000 is not really enough to live on, and tRump also lowered corporate taxes lower than ever before. His corporate tax break was also permanent while middle-class tax breaks were temporary.
“Households with incomes in the top 1 percent will receive an average tax cut of more than $60,000 in 2025, compared to an average tax cut of less than $500 for households in the bottom 60 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center (TPC).[1] As a share of after-tax income, tax cuts at the top — for both households in the top 1 percent and the top 5 percent — are more than triple the total value of the tax cuts received for people with incomes in the bottom 60 percent.”
We will have to wait and see what the new administration does. This is off topic but I wanted to give you some facts of my own.
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Thomas P. Davis
Cynthia, Trump is not the anti-christ. He may be working for him though. He does not fulfill this. 1Jn_4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world....... There is a man on this planet that does teach this, for hundreds of years. That ii why it says " already in this world.
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Parson Golden
One can see whatever they want to in any image they look at.
I see it as a Nazi heil Hitler salute. And that is fitting for him. But your mileage may vary.
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Lionheart
Of course that’s what you want to see, Parson. Thats what confirmation bias does, bless your heart.
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James Riggle-Johnson
How bout it has nothing to do with what others are saying and simply Parson’s own opinion. I myself hate being told I’m just going along with the group when in fact, I form my own opinions, based on my own observations. I don’t care what any group is saying, LH. I call it as I see it.
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Lawrence Pearce
You saw what everyone saw in the Hollywood movies about the Roman Empire. You saw Roman soldiers strike their hearts and then lift their right hands in salute to Caesar or their Roman General. Those images are what the Germans saw in our movies before the Nazis copied the "Roman salute" for themselves.
As for the swastika, that was and still is a solar symbol of "good luck" among the Hindu people of India and it was copied by the Nazis as well. "There's nothing new under the sun."
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Parson Golden
Your right. The Roman salute is also known as the Fascist salute. In contemporary times, the former is commonly considered a symbol of fascism. According to an apocryphal legend, the fascist gesture was based on a customary greeting which was allegedly used in ancient Rome. However, no Roman text describes such a gesture.
Actually in the United States, a similar salute for the Pledge of Allegiance known as the Bellamy salute was created by Francis Bellamy. During the rise of fascism in Italy the and the incorporation of the salute used byHitler and Mussolini, the US Congress amended the Flag Code in December 1942, changing the salute to placing a right hand over the heart.
So yes, I saw exactly what I saw. A salute to Fascism and Naziism.
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Lawrence Pearce
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in, writing in an X post on Thursday that Musk 'is being falsely smeared.'" - DailyMailcom January 23, 2025
"Elon is a great friend of Israel,' Netanyahu added of the South African native. 'He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.'
'He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel's right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state,' the PM concluded."
So that makes Elon's false accusers guilty of libel and slander. Lawsuits coming...
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Larry Michael Damato
THE ONLY BEASTS THAT ABOUND ARE THE CORPORATIONS AND THEIR GREEDY CEOS..... AND OF COURSE THOSE WE CREATE.... BE LOVING BE KIND BE POSITIVE AND ALWAYS SEEK THE TRUTH....
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Mark Faulkner
To me this idea that the Grok logo being a broken cross is just recycled 1980's 'Satanic Panic' akin to the peace symbol representing a broken upsidedown cross.
Elon has a fetish with the letter X.... I could sit here and associate the symbol X with the symbol of the square and how they represent Saturn and the Demiurge and how Elon proudly displays low spiritual values as being proof. Honestly though, If I did that... it would be more of a statement of my own victimhood and judgements than any real world association with the logo and the Demiurge.
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Rev. BH
More concerned by his Nazi salute at the inauguration.
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James Mounts
As a student of WWII, I have never once seen a picture or film of someone touching his heart as part of a Nazi salute. Anyone who is not looking for a reason to criticize will see a man throwing his love to the audience.
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Lawrence Pearce
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in, writing in an X post on Thursday that Musk 'is being falsely smeared.'
'Elon is a great friend of Israel,' Netanyahu added of the South African native. 'He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.'
'He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel's right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state,' the PM concluded.
When the #1 Jew in the world endorses Elon's salute, you know that anyone who disagrees is guilty of slander and libel against the Rocket Man Genius!
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Lionheart
I was wondering when Elon Musk was going to be addressed here. I have photo images of Kamal Harris, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Elizabeth Warren, all giving the exact same hand gesture, but no one on the left made anything of it at the time. I wonder why? Oh yes, they are all Democrats.
As for the "symbol", I see the side profile of a patio chair, or beach chair 🤔. I'm sure people with their own bias will see what they all want to see. 🤷🏼
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Reverend Paula Copp
I should have known, LH… I will remember in the future.
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Lawrence Pearce
Lionheart thanks you for making sure he is listed in your trust fund. You are placing him in your trust fund, aren't you? I'd hate to think that you were threatening him in any way for simply expressing his opinion.
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Lionheart
I was wondering when Elon Musk was going to be addressed here. I have photo images of Kamal Harris, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Elizabeth Warren, all giving the exact same hand gesture, but no one on the left made anything of it at the time. I wonder why? Oh yes, they are all Democrats.
As for the "symbol", I see the side profile of a patio chair, or beach chair 🤔. I'm sure people with their own bias will see what they all want to see. 🤷🏼
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Michael Hunt
Maybe the left didn't make anything of those gestures because they were obviously not salutes. Elon, twice, gives a roman salute by the very definition of how that salute is given. None of the Democrats who you bring up are making a salute gesture when they are photographed with their hand raised. The context of what is happening in each of the photos you reference is very important and you are intentionally ignoring that context to further your false stance.
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Lionheart
Thank you Mick Hunt, I got it! Their gestures were not salutes in the Nazi style, even though it looks as though they were, but Elon Musk’s is. 🤭
I’d love to know what you make of what that symbol is? I bet you see it as something extremely Satanic, or even something reminiscent of the Nazi holocaust era….right? Perhaps it could be something from the Epstein Island that was hidden away under that picture of Bill Clinton in a woman’s dress. 🤷
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Lawrence Pearce
Hollywood originated the "Roman salute" in their movies about the Roman Empire before the Germans copied it after watching our movies dubbed into their language!
The same is true for the Hindu "swastika" which has always been a solar symbol for "good luck" or "good fortune" for thousands of years in India.
The Nazis copied the Roman salute from Hollywood movies and the swastika from the Hindus. But if paranoia is your goal, you've achieved it! LOL
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ServantOfJudgement
Musk was their golden child until he agreed with President Trump on a couple issues. Musk never was part of the hive mind but it thought he was. He shared one primary belief, climbing change. The hive assumed he was one of its drones, free of will and ready to obey. He is not.
It's interesting that I call it the hive mind whereas musk lovingly calls it the woke mind virus. How refreshing to see a person on the left see the same thing as a person on the right and describe it in strikingly similar terms.
The hive mind must see evil where it can not exist and procreate, even if it's a socially awkward, atheistic, green energy, climbing change diehard with a touch of autism. Anything not Hive is evil.
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James Riggle-Johnson
Why do you have to make this political? Usually, when it’s about someone calling something else demonic it is not the liberal left. Just sayin.
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Nicholas J Page
Who or what is Grock sounds like Grock Spock from Star Trek
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ServantOfJudgement
I see a symbol that says AI with a cleverly embedded X to signify Musks brand.
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Lawrence Pearce
You figured it out. I personally liked the twitter bird symbol better. To me the X means to "cross out" or to cancel something.
As a sidenote, there is no way anyone is going to survive an 18 to 24 month round trip to Mars with any of our technology. The amount of food and fuel along with cosmic radiation and the minus 400 degrees of space would kill all life on board a spaceship to Mars. Imagine being forced to lay still inside a frozen tube for 9 months when most people get restless after only 2 hours on a flight with comfortable seats!
We need to clean the air, waters and lands of earth first and a good friend has invented the affordable technologies to do those things.
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I don't worry too much about symbols... crosses, swastikas, stars or circles of all kinds, and all kinds of images graven or otherwise are generated and projected from the human psyche: both "light" and "dark" if there is actually a difference.
These arguments are a diversion: first shock and awe and disbelief; then anger and outrage; we react, we overreact, and because we have been intentionally misled, we are blown off course and lose our way: ourselves and those we love.
I'm Jewish. I know Nazis when I see them: whatever they call themselves, whatever symbols they choose to adopt and twist to their own uses or whatever classes of people they choose to target for persecution for their own power or profit.
These people did not just go away because they lost a war or society has condemned (some of) their practices.
This new administration was heralded by self proclaimed "evangelicals" and so- called "Christian" nationalists. Nationalism is what led to the rise of Hitler and his and his cohorts' subsequent atrocities.
I'd bet a coin or two that some of them are on this site.
A Nazi is a Nazi. I believe what they say about who they are and then I know what they want to do.
A wise old Poet Laureate said: "When someone tells you who they are, believe them."
You and I: know them for what they say, know them for what they do.
Peace, Out... tk