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AI chatbot Grok posts sexual images of minors after ‘lapses in safeguards’
(www.straitstimes.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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It's somehow necessary enough to have a bot that undresses people that when somebody uses Grok to sexualize a minor, it does not make them question the whole reason they have this feature in the first place. Maybe the whole feature should be removed if it's so easily abused.
“NO! I need to see what Peggy from Accounting would look like if she showed me her tits! A little bit of child pornography is a small price to pay!”