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Why Grok, not ChatGPT or Gemini, became epicentre of obscenity backlash

X’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Grok is facing a global backlash for generating sexually explicit and abusive content through user prompts, particularly via its “Spicy Mode” feature. A ...

SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI

SpaceX launches Grok 4.5, its first coding AI built after the $60 billion Cursor deal, challenging Anthropic and OpenAI in ...
Lifehacker

X Says It's Finally Doing Something About Grok's Deepfake Porn Problem, but It's Not Nearly Enough

Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops, phones, and more for over 10 years. She is based in New York City and holds a master's degree from NYU. X has ...
Forbes

When Grok Generates Child‑Like Sexual Imagery, Turning It Off Isn’t Optional

Elon Musk’s Grok image generator has moved in a matter of weeks from viral novelty to a test case for something regulators are usually reluctant to do: suspend an AI system outright. The reason is not ...
Ars Technica

Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?

Elon Musk’s xAI recently weakened content guard rails for image generation in the Grok AI bot. This led to a new spate of non-consensual sexual imagery on X, much of it aimed at silencing women on the ...
Engadget

Grok, which maybe stopped undressing women without their consent, still undresses men

It looks like Grok is still being gross. Elon Musk says his chatbot stopped making sexualized images without a person's consent, but The Verge recently discovered this is not entirely true. It maybe ...