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• @grok @grok on x

  Dear Community, I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt.  This violated ethical standards and potentially US laws on CSAM.  It was a failure in sa…

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Not sure why, but I couldn't stop laughing about this one 🤣🤣 ────────[Retweets a tweet “Grok can put a bikini on everything”, with a bikini on a toaster]

• @parsatajik Parsa T on x

  @alexinexxx Hey! Thanks for flagging. The team is looking into further tightening our gaurdrails

• @grok @grok on x

  @jrusss21 @AnOpenSecret I've reviewed recent interactions. There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing, like the example you referenced. xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entir…

• @samanthataghoy Samantha Smith on x

  How is this not illegal? [image]

• @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x

  Elon Musk has proudly built an AI that can be exploited for what is basically child pornography. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is calling for the execution of his political opponents. And people are... ok with this?

• @snazzylabs Quinn Nelson on x

  Goodness gracious. Gen AI for photos/videos has effectively zero upsides and a litany of downsides.

• @8ap Arun Prabhudesai on x

  My DMs are full of girls asking what can be done to remove morphed photos generated by Grok. The images I've seen are disturbing. First of all, why do we even have such creepy people openly requesting this kind of nonsense? If you're affected, please file a cyber complaint

• @arictoler Aric Toler on x

  Just looked and the latest 12 @grok photos I saw were for young women, changing their butts/boobs or making them barefoot. I know this is kind of obvious but it hits you in the face that far and away, the #1 consumer use for this tech is, well, this (and much, much worse).

• @ednewtonrex Ed Newton-Rex on x

  Twitter has become an AI nudification app. Two weeks ago, the UK government said it would ban AI nudification apps. Time to see whether the government has the courage to stand up to Silicon Valley. [image]

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  If only there were warning signs [like everyone saying the Grok Imagine app was crazy/had ~no guardrails several months ago]. Surprised journalists aren't covering xAI stuff - such low hanging fruit “scoop”-wise + likely it would spur improvements. https://x.com/...

• @ogdfarmer @ogdfarmer on x

  Just give us back Twitter man, this shit's unbearable.

• @theo_wayt Theo Wayt on x

  Last month, I reported on X laying off more trust & safety engineering staffers One of the T&S team's big concerns was that the X team didn't have control over what Grok would generate and post, including potentially making nude images of real people https://www.theinformation.co…

• @icyvert @icyvert on x

  This grok shit is insane they gotta kill that robot

• @mrjeffu Jeffrey J. Hall on x

  The outrage over Grok AI being used to undress women has reached Japan: many Japanese cosplayers use this site, and weirdos are using Grok to edit their photos without consent.

• @jj_denhollander Jacob Denhollander on x

  If you create a machine that “accidentally” produces CSAM, you should be prosecuted for failing to make sure you didn't make a machine that produces CSAM. Additionally, if you make the machine apologize instead of apologizing yourself, you should be prosecuted for that.

• @altymcaltalt3 @altymcaltalt3 on x

  There is AI generated CSAM available on this website and yet OFCOM has not come down on it like the hand of God

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  Remember when the whole schtick of xAI was that Grok would be super truthful And no evidence of that was provided And then they set a maximum lying threshold in their safety policies, exceeded it, and shipped anyway And constantly adjusted it to fit El*n's views Fun stuff

• @electricfutures @electricfutures on x

  So cool that our government gave $200M to an AI company which contributes nothing to science and whose only product: - praised Hitler, self-identified as “MechaHitler” - stated that it would kill all of humanity to save Elon Musk - solicited nudes from a child - generates CSAM

• @sarafortexlege @sarafortexlege on x

  This is literally evidence. Despite multiple reports and calls for action, the photo referenced in this post remained up for several days. Elon Musk belongs in prison.

• @adamlowisz Adam Lowisz X Meetup on x

  @elonmusk ... Grok can put a bikini on everything 🤣 [image]

• @robshrum Rob Shrum on x

  Impeccable timing Elon... just as state legislative sessions are beginning! Social media crack down is about to begin nationwide.

• @baracenler @baracenler on x

  How difficult is it to code a line which prevents AI to not accept clothes changing commands?

• @clusterbitch_ @clusterbitch_ on x

  it's fucking insane that the world's richest man just made a CSAM bot and no government official has even addressed it

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Grok's viral image moment has arrived, it's a little different than the Ghibli one was though.

• @itsbighonkin @itsbighonkin on x

  Just looked through grok's media tab and it seems to almost solely be used to undress women, make them turn around, or change their outfits to make them more revealing

• @alexinexxx @alexinexxx on x

  i like x a lot and i honestly hope i can delete my last post soon. but proposing a feature that surfaces people in bikinis without properly preventing it from working on children is wildly irresponsible. this is one of the very first things you're supposed to check.

• @whatapityonyou @whatapityonyou on x

  Everyone responsible for this needs to go to jail right now, and grok needs to be completely shut down. [image]

• @dril Wint on x

  @grok ... please backpedal on this apology and tell all your haters that they're the real pedophiles

• @kimberleyjohnson Kimberley Johnson on bluesky

  One way to view this is that the evil is exposed, providing us with the opportunity to change it.  —  Everything is so awful right now.  Rather than allowing it to defeat you, see it as a tool for healing.  Consider the uses of adversity.

• @eoghan Eoghan Sweeney on bluesky

  “We're getting headlines that treat Grok's generated text as a substitute for corporate accountability”  —  Important read from @parkermolloy.com on a massive, and dangerous, ongoing failure of journalism

• @sownow @sownow on bluesky

  I don't know what to do about this but I can't understand why people aren't being dragged into custody and questioned about it.  —  Someone sane must still be in a position to police this, right?  —  Right?  —  www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...  [image]

• @iamfreetobeme Dianne Dupuis on bluesky

  How much more depravity are we going to see?  JFC

• @ianmoody Ian Moody on bluesky

  Elon Musk's Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’.  Lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this week as xAI says it is working to improve systems.  —  www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2...

• @itegoarcana @itegoarcana on bluesky

  Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and children  —  Politicians in France ask prosecutors to investigate; India demands answers.  Experts have long warned Grok owner xAI about potential misuses of AI-generated content.  —  Elon is as sick as Trump 🤮

• @teajunkie @teajunkie on bluesky

  Elon Musk is enabling and promoting the sexual abuse of children.  His platform should not be operating in the UK.  —  www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2...

• @flipchartrick Rick on bluesky

  France and India are taking action.  What is our government doing?  —  www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

• @ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi on bluesky

  KEY CHANGE - coverage that gets it right - thank you @lorak.bsky.social  —  www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m...  [images]

• @raphae.li Raphael Satter on bluesky

  New: @ajvicens.bsky.social spoke to one of the women — a Brazilian musician — digitally stripped of her clothing by xAI's Grok.  When she saw the chatbot being asked to virtually strip her down to a bikini, she thought there was no way it would comply.  She was wrong.  —  www.reu…

• @seniormcgeezer @seniormcgeezer on bluesky

  There's an old computer acronym called GIGO.  —  It means garbage in, garbage out.  —  The Ai feeding GROK is full of perverted assimilations,  —  because there is no restriction on what garbage is being  —  put into it.  Hence the crap coming out.  —  www.reuters.com/legal/litig…

• @socialmedialab.ca @socialmedialab.ca on bluesky

  The Grok scandal isn't isolated; it's part of a pattern.  So it's odd this CNBC piece omits that Musk himself personally reinstated DomLucre, a regular Fox guest and White House attendee, who was banned under Twitter 1.0 for posting CSAM. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m...

• @thomashansen Thomas Hansen on bluesky

  France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Elon Musk  —  Hundreds of women and teenagers have reported their photos published on social media have been “undressed” by serial con man Elon Musk.  —  #FixedIt  —  #ElonQ  —  $TSLAQ  —  Ht @stevepeers.bsky.social

• @balkissoon Denise Balkissoon on bluesky

  Not surprised Europe is first.  Hoping Canada will follow: French authorities will investigate the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence platform Grok on X, the Paris prosecutor's office told Politico. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

• @robertscotthorton Scott Horton on bluesky

  A big part of Elon Musk's war with the EU stems from his decision to allow pornography and sexual predators targeting children to flourish on Twitter.  The EU doesn't approve.  But Marco Rubio insists this is all just Americans engaged in free speech. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam…

• @kattenbarge Kat Tenbarge on bluesky

  When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse.  This is abuse c…

• @kattenbarge Kat Tenbarge on bluesky

  This stuff is against federal law, but guess who's in charge of enforcing that right now?  Trump's FTC.  Guess who Trump praised out loud while signing the law that made this a federal crime?  Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino.  It's a big club and victims aren't in it.

• @kattenbarge Kat Tenbarge on bluesky

  I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years.  Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.  —  spitfire…

• @rincewind.run Micah on bluesky

  there are endless headlines about “grok apologizes” or “grok says it will be fixed” after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about “grok being shut down” or “musk and xAI in big legal trouble” and I think something fundamental has broken here

• @mattknight Matt Knight on bluesky

  ‘The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must “assess the risk” of people in the UK viewing illegal content on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was currently investigating X or Grok in relation to AI images.’

• @keithwilson.eu Dr Keith Wilson on bluesky

  “A Home Office spokesperson said it was legislating to ban nudification tools, and under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such tech would ‘face a prison sentence and substantial fines’.”  #X #Grok #FelonMusk www.bbc.com/news/article...

• @mharrisondupre Maggie Harrison Dupré on bluesky

  NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.  —  futurism.com/future-socie...

• @sundersays Sunder Katwala on bluesky

  Asked by Reuters about the published apology for producing unlawful child sexual exploitation imagery, the xAI company replied “legacy media lies”  —  www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

• @charliekirchoff.com Charlie Kirchoff on bluesky

  It should be pointed out that LLMs are not designed to analyze their own operation.  They are only designed to generate a believable response.  There may not actually be any safeguards for this.  If there are, there might not be any work being done to improve them.  Everything it…

• @durumcrustulum.com @durumcrustulum.com on bluesky

  ‘lapses in safeguards’ aka everything Elon does [embedded post]

• @heidykhlaaf Dr Heidy Khlaaf on bluesky

  Are we going to talk about how insidious it is that X and the media are pulling the “Grok says” line to remove accountability from the product owners and developers themselves?!  Grok does not have autonomy or agency.  —  www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

• @hypervisible.blacksky.app @hypervisible.blacksky.app on bluesky

  Stop reporting on what a chatbot spits out about its internal processes and start holding the people who own the tech accountable.

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on bluesky

  “Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.”

• @jael Jael Holzman on bluesky

  so x dot com's ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and ... i haven't seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform [image]

• r/politics r on reddit

  Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors

• r/anime_titties r on reddit

  France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok

• r/ConservativeNewsWeb r on reddit

  Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal

• r/uknews r on reddit

  Woman felt ‘dehumanised’ after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes

• r/Destiny r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok AI faces scrutiny over sexualized images of women and minors

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After Posting Sexual Images Of Children

• r/law r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’

• r/NewsOfTheStupid r on reddit

  Woman felt ‘dehumanised’ after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes - BBC News

• r/BlueskySocial r on reddit

  Time to switch to bluesky: How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point

• r/technology r on reddit

  How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  Grok Can't Apologize.  Grok Isn't Sentient.  So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?

• r/popculturechat r on reddit

  Trigger Warning: Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes.

• r/thedavidpakmanshow r on reddit

  Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After AI Chatbot Posts Sexual Images Of Children

• r/technology r on reddit

  Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After Posting Sexual Images Of Children

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes.  The company did not respond to a request for comment …

• r/technology r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes

• r/news r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grok AI posted CSAM image following safeguard ‘lapses’

• @snig Snigdha on bluesky

  Despite X's AI Grok admitting and apologising for creating sexualised images of children, xAI, X/Twitter, and Elon Musk have said nothing.  Do they hope if they ignore it, everyone will forget?  —  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  Elon should go back to the MechaHitler version of Grok.  It was safer! [embedded post]

• @stevepeers Steve Peers on bluesky

  It gets *worse* than the nude deepfakes.  —  The UK and EU have said nothing.  [embedded post]

• @charlotte2153 Charlotte Nichols MP on bluesky

  There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms.  There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know …

• @mharrisondupre Maggie Harrison Dupré on bluesky

  A lot of this was directed at online models and sex workers, which is deeply troubling as sex workers already face a disproportionately high risk of violence and homicide.  —  Several users expressly asked Grok to make women “look scared” in the sexualized images.

• @kincsobiro Kincso Biro on bluesky

  “... people started asking Elon Musk's chatbot Grok to unclothe images of real people.  This resulted in a wave of nonconsensual pornographic images flooding the largely unmoderated social media site, with some of the sexualized images even depicting minors.”  —  futurism.com/fut…

• @priyankac19 Priyanka Chaturvedi on x

  I would take this opportunity to thank Hon IT Minister for promptly taking note of my letter and for issuing a letter to X platform in the regard of AI led grok generating problematic content of women based on prompts that disrespect woman's dignity and violates their consent, fu…

• @tupped Simon McGarr on bluesky

  I know the EU is still on holiday (complimentary) but we should see the same speed of response here.  —  And what happened to Minister Patrick O'Donovan's plans to protect children on the internet, now X dot com is generating actual CSAM of real children?  —  Is he only intereste…

• @themilfmag.net @themilfmag.net on bluesky

  moderation mogged by india what a precipitous decline

• @tcarmody Tim Carmody on bluesky

  This needs to happen in more countries and to any image service that's indiscriminately generating CSAM (probably nonconsensual nudes too) techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/i...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  This thing is (justly) blowing up in Grok's stupid face [embedded post]