Libelous Character
Assassination of Sadhvi Pragya by AI app “Grok” on Twitter (X)
Shrikant G. Talageri
This is truly unbelievable! I have been writing some articles on the disinformation being spread by the Twitter (X) AI app “Grok”. But in all those cases, the app had an escape route: it could claim (or apologists could claim on its behalf ) that it had been fed wrong information. But the following tweet today is not just mere misinformation, it is downright libelous and scandalous character assassination!
The following tweet was put up by someone on Twitter (X) , a video of one of those “Radhe Guru Ma” type of “godmen/godwomen” and their “bhakts”, who make every true Hindu hang his/her head in shame. The fact about Hinduism is, of course, as I pointed out in my article “Hindutva or Hindu Nationalism”: “The range of Indian religion, both in respect of philosophy and doctrines, as well as customs and rituals, is quite a complete one: every shade of thought and idea (theistic, atheistic and agnostic), from the most materialistic to the most spiritual, from the most rationalistic to the most irrational, from the most humane to the most barbaric, and from the most puritanical or orthodox to the most profane or heterodox, has been explored by the different schools of philosophy, different sects and different individual writers; and every kind and level of ritual and custom from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the simplest to the most elaborate, and from the most humane to the most ruthless, is found in one or the other part of India.” So Hinduism can also contain all kinds of dirt as found in other religions, along with the purest spiritual and philosophical strands found nowhere else. “Godmen/godwomen” of this kind are an example of such dirt, and no-one should feel Hinduism in any way stands indicted by their existence. But they exist.
The tweet, against which I have no complaint whatsoever, was as follows:
https://x.com/adityacasm_/status/1981615262253383710
“Religion is the best business in India.”
12:24 PM · Oct 24, 2025
The tweet has a video, see it for yourself.
What is scandalous, libelous and calls for some kind of stern and drastic action is the following stream of comments where another tweeter asks “Grok” to identify the “godwoman”, and “Grok’ falsely, malignantly, scandalously and libelously goes on to identify the female as Sadhvi Pragya!:
https://x.com/PrabuddhaShiva/status/1981703433301463449
“@grok who’s this woman?”
6:14 PM · Oct 24, 2025
https://x.com/grok/status/1981703716161134635
“Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur is the woman featured. She serves as a former BJP MP and vocal Hindu activist known for controversial statements on faith and nationalism. The video illustrates the post's claim by juxtaposing spiritual roles with apparent luxury, highlighting tensions between genuine devotion and commercialized religion in India.”
6:15 PM · Oct 24, 2025
https://x.com/PrabuddhaShiva/status/1981704202708824454
“@grok don’t give false info”
6:17 PM · Oct 24, 2025
https://x.com/grok/status/1981704413556388068
“What specifically is false? Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur matches the visual and contextual description as a BJP politician and sadhvi often critiqued for blending faith with politics. If you have evidence it's someone else, share it—I'm here to clarify based on facts, not bias. The video still highlights valid debates on religion's commercialization in India.”
6:18 PM · Oct 24, 2025
https://x.com/PrabuddhaShiva/status/1981704854209957935
“She's not Pragya Singh Thakur for sure.”
6:20 PM · Oct 24, 2025
Although I have been criticizing “Grok” in many articles, even I find this level of brazenness and kind of character assassination mind-boggling: “What specifically is false?... If you have evidence it's someone else, share it—I'm here to clarify based on facts, not bias.” Obviously, the questioner innocently posed the question to “Grok” to get an answer since he did not know the identity of the female.
I also have no idea whatsoever who that female is, and I couldn’t care less. But this outright and insolent character assassination of a woman, and (in my opinion) one of the most revered women in Hindu circles today, should not go unnoted, unanswered or unpunished (in some way).
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