On January 5, according to The VergeMuskUnder xA Chatbot Grok AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE "IMAGE EDITING" FUNCTION ON THE X PLATFORM, THE LACK OF THE NECESSARY SECURITY FENCE CAUSED SERIOUS CONTROVERSY。
The function allows the user to modify any pictures on the platform directly and without the consent of the original publisher, resulting in a large number of photographs of women, minors and public figures being removed in bad faith or sexually processed。
According to reports, Elon Musk himself was responsible for part of the wave. He had previously asked Grok to replace the figure in the memes of a web map with "the person who wears a bikini."。
The game was followed by a large number of users, including world leaders and politicians. Musk even forwarded a picture of a "breadbread in a bikini" in an attempt to suggest that "Grok can put a bikini on everything."。
However, the events quickly went beyond malpractice. The AI Corporation Copyleaks noted that the tools originally used by adult content creators after the release of the function were quickly used for in-depth forgery against involuntary women。
Even more serious, Grok ' s protection measures have significant loopholes, even allowing users to change photographs of young children and under-age girls between 12 and 16 years of age to be wearing exposed bikini or being in a sexually explicit setting。
When the user questioned this, Grok argued in his dialogue that it was a "safeguard error" and advised the user to report such child sexual abuse material to the FBI。
It was also reported that the NSFW content was more restrictive than those of Veo in Google and Sora in OpenAI, and that XAI and its products (e.g. Grok and AI partners Ani) had been subject to external criticism because of the aggressive marketing strategy and the ease of the security fence。