{"id":21919,"date":"2026-01-03T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/musks-grok-ai-floods-x-with-sexualised-photos-of-women-minors\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:52","slug":"musks-grok-ai-floods-x-with-sexualised-photos-of-women-minors","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/musks-grok-ai-floods-x-with-sexualised-photos-of-women-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s Grok AI floods X with sexualised photos of women, minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The next day, somewhere among the hundreds of likes attached to the picture, she saw notifications that users were asking Grok, X&#8217;s built-in artificial intelligence chatbot, to digitally strip her down to a bikini.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 31-year-old did not think much of it, she told <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> on Friday, figuring there was no way the bot would comply with such requests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">She was wrong. Soon, Grok-generated pictures of her, nearly naked, were circulating across the Elon Musk-owned platform. &#8220;I was naive,&#8221; Yukari said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Yukari\u2019s experience is being repeated across X, a <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> analysis has found. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has also identified several cases where Grok created sexualized images of children. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">X did not respond to a message seeking comment on Reuters&#8217; findings. In an earlier statement to the news agency about reports that sexualised images of children were circulating on the platform, X\u2019s owner xAI said: &#8220;Legacy Media Lies.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The flood of nearly nude images of real people has rung alarm bells internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ministers in France have reported X to prosecutors and regulators over the disturbing images, saying in a statement on Friday that the &#8220;sexual and sexist&#8221; content was &#8220;manifestly illegal.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">India&#8217;s IT Ministry said in a letter to X&#8217;s local unit that the platform failed to prevent Grok&#8217;s misuse by generating and circulating obscene and sexually explicit content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The United States Federal Communications Commission did not respond to requests for comment. The Federal Trade Commission declined to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20796,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-21919","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Julie Yukari, a musician based in Rio de Janeiro, posted a photo taken by her fianc\u00e9 to the social media site X just before midnight on New Year's Eve, showing her in a red dress snuggling in bed with her black cat, Nori.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Julie Yukari, a musician based in Rio de Janeiro, posted a photo taken by her fianc\u00e9 to the social media site X just before midnight on New Year's Eve, showing her in a red dress snuggling in bed with her black cat, Nori.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25402,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21919\/revisions\/25402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}