Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot blamed "lapses successful safeguards" for the caller posting of artificial intelligence-generated sexualized pictures of children.

In a societal media post to X connected Friday, Grok said it was "urgently fixing" the contented and called kid intersexual maltreatment worldly "illegal and prohibited." Grok besides acknowledged that a institution could look transgression oregon civilian penalties for failing to forestall this contented erstwhile informed.

Users connected X raised concerns successful caller days implicit explicit content of minors being generated utilizing the Grok tool, which included children wearing minimal clothing.

A station from xAI method unit subordinate Parsa Tajik besides acknowledged the issue.

"Hey! Thanks for flagging. The squad is looking into further tightening our gaurdrails," Tajik said successful a post.

Musk's xAI sent an autoreply to a petition for comment: "Legacy Media Lies."

The proliferation of AI image-generating platforms since the motorboat of ChatGPT successful 2022 has raised concerns implicit contented manipulation and online information crossed the board. It's besides contributed to an expanding fig of platforms that person produced deepfake nudes of existent people.

While different chatbots person faced akin issues, Grok has repeatedly landed successful blistery h2o for misuse.

In May, the institution faced backlash for responding to idiosyncratic queries with unsolicited comments astir "white genocide" in South Africa. Two months later, Grok posted antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler.

Despite the stumbles, Grok has continued to onshore partnerships and deals.

The Department of Defense added Grok to its AI agents level past period and the instrumentality is the main chatbot for prediction betting platforms Polymarket and Kalshi.