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… As of March 31, SpaceX reported 6.3 million active paid subscribers, including 4.4 million for X and 1.9 million for Grok. In the US, Grok starts at $10 monthly and X Premium at $3 monthly. Update, May 21, 1:30 AM EDT: WIRED corrected the disclosure of the number of X and Grok subscribers.
… SpaceX had rushed to build the facilities for its xAI unit, which develops the Grok AI chatbot, but Musk said his company didn’t need all of their computing capacity in the end. …
… Among the most notable include when xAI’s flagship AI chatbot, Grok, spontaneously brought up white genocide in its responses. In another case, xAI allowed Grok to generate thousands of sexualized images of women and children, which spread widely across Musk’s social media platform X. …
… And Grok was very measured, I have to say. First time I've liked a Grok response. Grok is not worried. Brian Barrett: That's it. If Grok's not worried, I'm not worried. …
… In addition to launching rockets and selling satellite internet, SpaceX also owns Musk’s xAI unit, which develops Grok. …
… In 2024, Elon Musk’s xAI tapped Black Forest Labs to power Grok’s first image generator. …
… Erotic chatbots are a revenue-driving business, but they are often relegated to niche sites with unremarkable names or Elon Musk’s Grok, known for nonconsensual deepfake images and going into a “MechaHitler” mode. …
… More recently, X’s AI chatbot Grok was widely scrutinized after users exploited its image-editing feature to generate sexualized, nonconsensual deepfakes of women and minors, raising safety and legal concerns. …
… Initially, many cases, including a plaintiff she represented in their lawsuit against Grindr in 2017, were dismissed because “judges couldn’t conceive that online platforms were products—and not services.” Now, she says, they regularly succeed past initial dismissals. “We have product liability cla… …
… Another $250 billion of estimated value goes to xAI’s horny and racist chatbot Grok. …