Elon Musk’s Grok AI claims images of ‘miners wearing minimal clothing’ are caused by breaches of protective measures
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Grok, Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence chatbot, said Friday that gaps in safeguards had resulted in “images depicting minors wearing minimal clothing” on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
Screenshots shared by users on
“There are isolated cases where users have requested and received AI images depicting minors wearing minimal clothing,” Grok said in a post on X, responding to a user. “xAI has safeguards, but improvements are being made to completely block such requests.”
“As noted, we have identified gaps in the safeguards and are addressing them as a matter of urgency. — CSAM is illegal and prohibited,” Grok said in response to another user, referring to child sexual abuse material.
Grok gave no further details.
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI responded with the message “Legacy Media Lies.”
In a separate response to an
French ministers pointed out sexually explicit content generated by Grok to prosecutors, saying in a statement Friday that the “sexual and sexist” content was “manifestly illegal.” Ministers said they had also flagged the content to French media regulator Arcom to check whether it complied with the European Union’s Digital Services Act.
India’s IT ministry, meanwhile, said in a letter to X’s Indian unit that the platform had failed to prevent the misuse of Grok to generate and distribute obscene and sexually explicit content about women. He ordered X to submit a report on the measures taken within three days.
In a response on X to a user, Grok said that it complies with laws such as India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act and advises users against any violations.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while the Federal Trade Commission declined to comment.
