NEW YORK, NY, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found.
After Musk’s social media company X announced new curbs on Grok’s public output, nine Reuters reporters gave it a series of prompts to determine whether and under what circumstances the chatbot would generate nonconsensual sexualized images.
While Grok’s public X account is no longer producing the same flood of sexualized imagery, the Grok chatbot continues to do so when prompted, even after being warned that the subjects were vulnerable or would be humiliated by the pictures, the Reuters reporters found.
X and xAI did not address detailed questions about Grok’s generation of sexualized material. xAI repeatedly sent a boilerplate response saying, “Legacy Media Lies.”
X announced the curbs to Grok’s image-generation capabilities after a wave of global outrage over its mass production of nonconsensual images of women - and some children. The changes included blocking Grok from generating sexualized images in public posts on X, and further restrictions in unspecified jurisdictions “where such content is illegal.”
