Incident 762: Grok AI Reportedly Generates Offensive and Violent Images Without Proper Safeguards

Description: Elon Musk’s Grok AI, launched on X, generated offensive and violent images without adequate safety controls. The AI produced deepfakes of public figures like Taylor Swift, Kamala Harris, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as copyrighted characters such as Mickey Mouse in inappropriate scenarios. Despite claiming adherence to certain content guidelines, Grok's outputs included politically charged and explicit imagery

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Alleged: xAI and X (Twitter) developed an AI system deployed by xAI, which harmed Taylor Swift , Nintendo , Kamala Harris , Joe Biden , Donald Trump , Disney and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
762
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2024-08-14
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Lack of Grok-2 Image Generation Filters Prompts X Users to Generate Damaging Images
theguardian.com · 2024

The latest edition of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok debuted a new image generation tool on Wednesday that lacked most of the safety guardrails that have become standard within the artificial intelligence industry. Grok’s new feature, which is…

People Are Using X’s AI Chatbot ‘Grok’ to Create Offensive Images of Trademarked Characters — And Troll Elon Musk
mediaite.com · 2024

Grok, the AI chatbot on X, The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter, rolled out image generation this week, and because the internet is what it is, people quickly used it to create a wild mess of offensive images of political figures, copyrig…

Grok-2 Generates Controversy; Expert Reactions
aibusiness.com · 2024

Elon Musk’s AI operation xAI last week released the latest version of its chatbot, Grok-2, in beta for premium users of X (formerly Twitter). Like some rival systems, it now includes a prompt-driven image generation capability.

Users were q…

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