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‘Fun’ AI image chatbot serves up Nazi Mickey Mouse and Taylor Swift deepfakes — Grok doesn’t reject prompts depicting violent and explicit content as X owner calls it ‘the most fun AI in the world!’

Grok doesn’t reject prompts depicting violent and explicit content as X owner calls it ‘the most fun AI in the world!’

In prompts and images reviewed by the Guardian, Grok’s output included representations of Donald Trump flying a plane into the World Trade Center buildings and the prophet Muhammad holding a bomb, as well as depictions of Taylor Swift, Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in lingerie – all women who are already frequent targets for online harassment. X has had a policy on non-consensual nudity since 2021, when the company was still Twitter and not under Musk’s ownership, which bans sharing explicit content that was produced without a subject’s consent and includes digitally imposing people’s faces on to nude bodies. While Musk marketed Grok as a “maximum truth-seeking AI” that would deliver answers on issues other chatbots refused to touch, his company has faced criticism from researchers and lawmakers for spreading falsehoods.

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