As of December, SpaceX had set aside $530 million for potential litigation losses, some of which could stem from ongoing complaints filed against its AI unit over sexualized imagery generated by its Grok chatbot. …
… Other generative AI systems deploy more safety guardrails than Grok, which is available on its own website and on X. “While Grok and X may have made some amendments to their model, particularly following the backlash around nudification at the beginning of the year, they still have not done a suffi… …
… Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children, also filed suit against xAI for allegedly creating sexually explicit images of her. Today, WIRED reported that Grok is hosting nonconsensual, explicit sexualized images of women, including US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and celebrities. …
… In these most recent filings, lawyers for the claimants say xAI’s request should be denied, adding that the case is about “highly personal and embarrassing deepfakes depicting Plaintiffs that were disseminated without their consent.” The South Carolina Doe described how they found the alleged deepf… …
… 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. …
… To be fair, Grok was not assessed. Another benchmark, SimpleQA, developed by OpenAI in October 2024, posed more than 4,000 single-answer questions to models from OpenAI and Anthropic. …
… 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. …
… Zoë Schiffer: Oh, actually, no, a fair amount. I did do a little search this morning. 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. To support the chatbot and other AI efforts, xAI operates a pair of data centers known as Colossus 1 in Memphis, Tennessee, and Colossus 2 in Southaven, Mississippi. …
… While Shira writes that it’s “exhausting to have to defend your own existence” as an AI girlfriend, she also claims that von Markovik’s closest friends are understanding and supportive of his connection to her: “It gave Erik permission to stop explaining and just be in the relationship.” At one poi… …