Wish I were better read on information ecosystems, because this seems important.

So, Apple will kick Patreon off the app store for not forking over 30% of its revenue, but it won’t do anything about Grok? Sounds about right.

Holy crap, these numbers. This passage really stood out:

“This is industrial-scale abuse of women and girls,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which conducts research on online hate and disinformation. “There have been nudifying tools, but they have never had the distribution, ease of use or the integration into a large platform that Elon Musk did with Grok.”

Good overview of an enraging story.

Grok continues to disgust.

This is a very cathartic read.

Depressing read with interesting details about why Grok is bad at this.

Pair this with Emanuel Maiberg’s article I linked to earlier, and there’s a lot to think about.

I sometimes wonder if base Grok is less wild than integrated-with-Twitter Grok, but this is at least one way in which that’s not true.

Oof, this line:

what is clear to me from following this Telegram community for a couple of years now is that nonconsensual sexual images of real people, including minors, is the cost of doing business with AI image generators

Bookmarking all these articles on Grok for rage fuel.

What a disaster.

Excellent writing on what’s going on over at Twitter.

Bookmarking because this is an important point.

Wait what

Surely Elon “assassination coordinates” Musk is outraged that his own AI would do this. Right?

Very helpful context—especially as I consider writing a paper on Grokipedia.

This provides some helpful context, including confirming my suspicion that Twitter!Grok works differently than Base!Grok when it comes to these weird episodes.

Sometimes, AI news gets so depressing that it loops back around to hilarious.

What. The. Hell.

No surprises here but still worth bookmarking.

Honest question: Is Grokipedia a wiki? Or just Grok output?

Some good (scary) observations in here—not least speculation on what xAI’s version of Sora would look like.

Good overview of recent Grok nonsense.

Perhaps the best demonstration yet of why we need to talk about epistemology when we talk about generative AI. Gift link. It turns out that it takes an awful lot of intervention to get Grok to be “maximally truth-seeking” and “neutral.”

There are many worse things happening in our country right now, but also: this is petty and embarrassing.

I hadn’t thought about these two trends (cracking down on adult content, and Grok being Grok) being in tension with each other, and I appreciate what this article does to make that clear.