Musk's Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
Source: NYT
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, created and then publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to separate estimates of X data by The New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Starting in late December, users on the social media platform inundated the chatbot’s X account with requests to alter real photos of women and children to remove their clothes, put them in bikinis and pose them in sexual positions, prompting a global outcry from victims and regulators.
In just nine days, Grok posted more than 4.4 million images. A review by The Times conservatively estimated that at least 41 percent of posts, or 1.8 million, most likely contained sexualized imagery of women. A broader analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, using a statistical model, estimated that 65 percent, or just over three million, contained sexualized imagery of men, women or children.
The findings show how quickly Grok spread disturbing images, which earlier prompted governments in Britain, India, Malaysia and the United States to start investigations into whether the images violated local laws. The burst of nonconsensual images in just a few days surpassed collections of sexualized deepfakes, or realistic A.I.-generated images, from other websites, according to The Times’s analysis and experts on online harassment.
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Where, by and large, women are not treated with respect, and they're growing up thinking all women are wanton hussies (nothing against those who choose to be such)? This tool is letting them make their own and frankly seems like the kind of thing where most of the requests for the images would be coming from snickering teenage boys. I rather hope so, frankly, because grown-ups doing this sort of thing is beyond pathetic.
Plenty of AI systems that generate images generally do NOT allow commands to digitally disrobe anyone so I know it's very possible for Grok to act the same. Once I was trying to make a political satire *cartoon* i.e. nothing life-like, not based on any photo, involving Putin, Trump, and some light BDSM gear (guess who was the dom and who was the sub 
) and Leonardo AI was having NONE of that. And did some quick prompts to see if it would do it with any other 'known person' (outside of politics) and its answer didn't change, it doesn't do that kind of thing at all.