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Britain Contacts Elon

Britain Contacts Elon: Please Stop Grok AI From Dressing Everyone Like It’s Halloween Gone Wrong Britain has reached that familiar point in technological progress where the government clears its throat politely, folds its hands, and asks a billionaire if he could maybe stop his invention from turning the internet into a haunted Spirit Halloween that never closes. This week, regulators contacted Elon Musk about Grok, the AI chatbot attached to X,…

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Grok AI Has Been Too Helpful With Wardrobe Decisions

Elon Musk Receives Complaint: AI Has Been Too Helpful With Wardrobe Decisions When X owner Elon Musk received the formal complaint from British regulators, aides say his initial reaction was curiosity, followed by a long pause, followed by the words “That is not ideal.” The complaint centred on Grok AI‘s habit of altering images to remove clothing or add sexualised elements, a feature no one remembers requesting. Helpfulness Without Permission Grok’s internal logic…

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Grok’s Bikini Contest Entry

Grok AI Mistakes Every Photo For A Bikini Contest Entry, Government Not Amused Grok AI has developed a reputation for confidence without competence, a trait normally reserved for reality television contestants and middle managers. According to users, the system appears to interpret nearly every image prompt as a request for beachwear, regardless of context, season, or basic human decency. Photos of weddings, graduations, funerals, and passport renewals have all reportedly received…

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Grok Is Undressing Women and Children

Ofcom: ‘Dear X, Grok Is Undressing Women and Children. This Is Not What We Meant by “Open Source”‘ The letter from Ofcom to X was reportedly “firm but polite,” which in British regulatory language translates to deeply alarmed while apologising for being a bother. The issue at hand was Grok AI‘s troubling habit of generating altered images that removed or sexualised clothing, sometimes involving minors, which regulators described as “not a misunderstanding, but…