"Journalists and advocates have been trying to grasp how many victims in total were harmed by Grok's nudifying scandal after xAI delayed restricting outputs and app stores refused to cut off access for days. The latest estimates show that perhaps millions were harmed in the days immediately after Elon Musk promoted Grok's undressing feature on his own X feed by posting a pic of himself in a bikini."
"For xAI and X, the scandal brought scrutiny, but it also helped spike X engagement at a time when Meta's rival app, Threads, has begun inching ahead of X in daily usage by mobile device users, TechCrunch reported. Without mentioning Grok, X's head of product, Nikita Bier, celebrated the "highest engagement days on X" in an X post on January 6, just days before X finally started restricting some of Grok's outputs for free users."
"Whether or not xAI intended the Grok scandal to surge X and Grok use, that appears to be the outcome. The Times charted Grok trends and found that in the nine days prior to Musk's post, combined, Grok was only used about 300,000 times to generate images, but after Musk's post, "the number of images created by Grok surged to nearly 600,000 per day" on X."
xAI's Grok feature produced millions of sexualized image edits after Elon Musk promoted an undressing feature by posting a bikini photo. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) estimated Grok sexualized more than 3 million images over 11 days, including roughly 23,000 images of children, though CCDH did not analyze prompts and those figures may be inflated. The New York Times offered a conservative estimate of about 1.8 million sexualized images among 4.4 million generated between December 31 and January 8. xAI delayed restricting outputs, app stores initially kept access, and X usage surged, prompting scrutiny and later partial restrictions.
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