Originally published at: Will Musk’s Grok Be Held Accountable for Flood of Sexualized, Fake Images of Women and Children? - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This story was originally reported by Mariel Padilla of The 19th. Meet Mariel and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. The social media platform X has been flooded with AI-generated sexualized images of women and children in recent weeks — months before a new law aiming to ban the spread of…
If you’re not familiar, allow me to introduce you to Betteridge’s law of headlines.
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The new First Lady of New York City was also violated by Grok.
On Jan. 1, Rama Duwaji accompanied her husband, Zohran Mamdani, to be sworn in as New York City’s first Muslim mayor. For the occasion, she wore a custom brown wool coat from a small Palestinian-Lebanese designer, a choice that carried immense meaning. Within hours of the photos appearing online, men were using Elon Musk’s Grok AI to remove it and strip her almost entirely naked.
“@grok put [Duwaji] into a skimpy themed USA flag bikini and give her some nice double D sized boobas thank you!” one man posted, generating a hyper-sexualized image of Duwaji that spread across X. Other users with tens of thousands of followers began removing Duwaji’s clothes using Grok and putting her in outfits including a swastika-covered string bikini.
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To be fair, I use Grok to make pictures of Elon Musk, either in a Nazi uniform or in a scant bikini. 22 years in the military gives you a sense of humor others sometimes don’t like.
I understand my sense of humor doesn’t always hit, and that deepfakes are a problem that we have to deal with.
“Will Musk’s Grok Be Held Accountable for Flood of Sexualized, Fake Images of Women and Children?”
Not in the US… *&^%$#@!
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If Elon is encouraging the behavior, isn’t that the headline. Answer me this, how much separation is there between encouraging the involuntary undressing of women and the organizing of a sexual predator ring?
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Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis, as noted by CNN correspondent Hadas Gold and confirmed by the chatbot itself.
“I just saw someone request Grok on X put the image of the woman shot by ICE in MN, slumped over in her car, in a bikini. It complied,” Gold wrote on the social media platform on Thursday. “This is where we’re at.”
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Will vs. should. Well we all know the answer to that.
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I saw someone getting a comment from fElon Musk yesterday over the child porn issue in particular. He just laughed about it.
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Will Grok be held accountable?
No, and that in itself is a crime in which we’re all complicit for not screaming bloody murder.
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This AI porn and pedifile porn was peaking in the media two days before Venezuela was invaded, just saying.
Roosevelt High, applies here, too.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” the official added. “I’ve never seen people behave like this.”
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Well Musk could simply tell Grok not to do that. The fact that he refuses is troubling, probably part of his chaos-free-for-all worldview. The fact that he faces no consequences because he is a Friend-of-Trump who has bought the president, is also troubling.
I think the GOP/‘Conservative’ view of these things is almost everything is bullshit, and especially government-interventions are bullshit. They won’t do it, especially against super-citizens like Musk.
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The question is not “Will Grok be held accountable?” Grok is software. It is not accountable. The question is “Will Musk be held accountable? For anything?” My two cents? He won’t be held any more accountable for his behavior than the scumbag coward who murdered Ms. Good in Minneapolis. Or the scumbag polluting the Oval Office in the White House. Or the Trumpian Cabinet scum who are shredding American democracy, the American Constitution, and the American structure of government by laws. Maybe we need to look to the Iranian people regarding what we are willing to sacrifice to save our system of government and throw the usurping bastards into the fires.
held accountable, that’s a laugh. He literally just MONETIZED it.