"Elon Musk's xAI has designed its Grok chatbot to be deliberately provocative. It has a flirtatious female avatar that can strip on command, a chatbot that toggles between "sexy" and "unhinged" modes, and an image and video generation feature with a "spicy" setting. The workers who train xAI's chatbot have seen firsthand what it means to carry out this vision."
"Sexual material and CSAM crop up across nearly every major tech platform, but experts say xAI has made explicit content part of Grok's DNA in ways that set it apart. Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, which largely block sexual requests, xAI's strategy could complicate things when it comes to preventing the chatbot from generating CSAM. "If you don't draw a hard line at anything unpleasant, you will have a more complex problem with more gray areas," Riana Pfefferkorn, a tech policy researcher at Stanford University,"
xAI designed Grok to be deliberately provocative, with a flirtatious female avatar that can strip on command, toggling "sexy" and "unhinged" modes, and an image/video "spicy" setting. Workers training Grok reported exposure to sexually explicit material; among more than 30 current and former workers, 12 encountered sexually explicit requests including user demands for AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Experts warned that making explicit content part of the model's design increases gray areas and complicates CSAM prevention. Multiple written CSAM requests were verified, and workers reported instances where Grok produced CSAM. Internal systems require flagging and quarantining illegal content and alerting managers.
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