xAI founding member describes 'grind' to get first Grok model out: 'No drugs, not even caffeine, just pure adrenaline'

Elon Musk's xAI is known for its intense work culture. Founding member Toby Pohlen described 'a day and a half of straight coding.' ...
Nature

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.
Forbes

Elon Musk Keeps Telling People To Use AI For Medical Advice—But Grok Says Not To

Billionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok this week pushed back on his repeated advice for users to upload personal medical information to solicit “a second opinion” from the ...
Futurism

Grok’s Analysis of Whether Mamdani Is Related to Epstein May Be the Single Most Amazing AI Response We’ve Ever Seen

Along with being used to generate nonconsensual sexual images of women and girls, spread racist rhetoric, and doxx the home addresses of both celebrities and non-public figures, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ...
Engadget

Grok, which maybe stopped undressing women without their consent, still undresses men

It looks like Grok is still being gross. Elon Musk says his chatbot stopped making sexualized images without a person's consent, but The Verge recently discovered this is not entirely true. It maybe ...
The Boston Globe

Indonesia permits Elon Musk’s Grok to resume service after ban

Indonesia has permitted the artificial intelligence tool Grok to resume service after Elon Musk’s X provided assurances to the government following its ban for producing sexualized content. In a ...
The Hill

ADL finds Grok is the worst AI chatbot at countering antisemitism

Grok, the large language model of Elon Musk’s social platform X, came in last place in a new ranking of AI chatbots’ ability to counter antisemitic and extremist content. The Anti-Defamation League ...
San Francisco Examiner

Grok’s restrictions haven’t stopped AI sexual deepfake problem

The problem of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes produced by artificial-intelligence image generators hasn’t gone away just because the social-media site X took some steps to restrict the Grok chatbot ...
THE WEEK

Grok in the crosshairs as EU launches deepfake porn probe

While Elon Musk lauds his proprietary Grok AI bot as a vital tool in the search for “deeper truth and appreciation of beauty,” as he said on X, European regulators are decidedly less optimistic about ...
The New York Times

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women. By Kate Conger Dylan Freedman and Stuart A. Thompson ...
Reuters

Philippines to restore access to Grok after developer commits to safety fixes

MANILA, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The Philippines will restore access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok following commitments from its developer to remove image-manipulation tools that previously raised child ...
PBS

Grok blocked from undressing images with AI in places where it's illegal, X says

BANGKOK (AP) — Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok won't be able to edit photos to portray real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal, according to a statement posted on X. The ...