Below are posts associated with the “Grok” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
Important update on Grok nonsense.
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT isn’t the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
Wish I were better read on information ecosystems, because this seems important.
🔗 linkblog: Apple says Patreon creators must switch to subscription billing by November
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.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
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.”
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees
Grok continues to disgust.
🔗 linkblog: Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”
Depressing read with interesting details about why Grok is bad at this.
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
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.
🔗 linkblog: Inside the Telegram Channel Jailbreaking Grok Over and Over Again
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
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Bookmarking all these articles on Grok for rage fuel.
🔗 linkblog: No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images
Bookmarking because this is an important point.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Surely Elon “assassination coordinates” Musk is outraged that his own AI would do this. Right?
🔗 linkblog: Anyone can try to edit Grokipedia 0.2 but Grok is running the show
Very helpful context—especially as I consider writing a paper on Grokipedia.
🔗 linkblog: Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird
This provides some helpful context, including confirming my suspicion that Twitter!Grok works differently than Base!Grok when it comes to these weird episodes.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Sometimes, AI news gets so depressing that it loops back around to hilarious.
🔗 linkblog: Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk
No surprises here but still worth bookmarking.
Honest question: Is Grokipedia a wiki? Or just Grok output?
🔗 linkblog: Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet
Some good (scary) observations in here—not least speculation on what xAI’s version of Sora would look like.
🔗 linkblog: The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
Good overview of recent Grok nonsense.
🔗 linkblog: How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
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.”