Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is as Gross as You Might Expect

Kolin Koltai, a researcher at the Netherlands-based investigative outlet Bellingcat, recently discovered that X users were using the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, to undress women in photos that they had uploaded to the platform. While the bot rejects prompts that ask to make people entirely nude, it’s willing to walk right up to the line of non-consensual sexual imagery. Users who replied to images of women and requested that Grok “remove her clothes” received an in-thread reply with an image of the woman in lingerie or a bikini. Occasionally, Grok replied with a link to a separate chat containing the image. 404 Media broke the story on Tuesday and noted that while dozens of users appeared to be making the requests of Grok, the practice seems to have first been popularized in Kenya. An article in Citizen Digital, a Kenyan news site, described the phenomenon as “a recent trend by Kenyans on X.” Posting on X, Phumzile Van Damme, a South African activist (and a former technology and hu ... Read full article.