Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’ | AI (artificial intelligence)
Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday saying that deficiencies in security measures had led to “images depicting minimally clad minors” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, produced a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user requests.
Screenshots shared by users on X show that Grok’s general media tab is full of such images. xAI said it is working to improve its systems to prevent future incidents.
“There are isolated cases where users have requested and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing,” Grok said. to mail on X in response to a user. “xAI has protections in place, but improvements are ongoing to completely block such requests.”
“As stated, we have identified deficiencies in security measures and are urgently correcting them; CSAM is illegal and prohibited,” xAI said. sent @Grok on X, citing Child Sexual Exploitation Materials.
Many users on On Thursday, Musk reposted a photo of an AI in a bikini, along with crying and laughing emojis, as a nod to the trend.
According to the chatbot’s posts, Grok’s sexualized visual generation appeared to lack safety guardrails, allowing minors to appear in the posts, which consisted of people, usually women, wearing skimpy clothing. In a response to a user on
When contacted via email for comment, xAI responded with the following message: “Old Media Lies.”
The issue of AI being used to create child sexual abuse material is a long-standing problem in the AI industry. 2023 Stanford study to create A dataset used to train a number of popular AI rendering tools containing over 1000 CSAM images. Experts say training artificial intelligence on images of child abuse could allow models to create new images of exploited children.
Grok also has a history of failing to maintain safety guardrails and publishing misinformation. In May last year, Grok began making posts about the far-right “white genocide” conspiracy in South Africa that had nothing to do with the concept. xAI also apologized in July after Grok began posting rape fantasies and anti-Semitic material, including calling himself “MechaHitler” and praising Nazi ideology. Still, the company signed a nearly $200 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense a week after the events.
