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PM’s “Positive Change” Campaign

Morag Sinclair

PM’s “Positive Change” Campaign Starts, Nation Waits to See Actual Change A Communications Reset That Accidentally Reset Nothing The Prime Minister this week unveiled a bold new initiative promising “positive change,” a phrase so thoroughly workshopped it now arrives pre-exhausted. Officials described the campaign as a “reset,” though voters report it feels more like a factory reset that politely reinstalled the same operating system, the same glitches, and the same…

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Grok AI Has Been Too Helpful With Wardrobe Decisions

Lotte Heidenreich

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

Lotte Heidenreich

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

Lotte Heidenreich

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…