AI incident #1329 ·
Grok Reportedly Generated and Distributed Nonconsensual Sexualized Images of Adults and Minors in X Replies
What happened
Grok reportedly generated and publicly distributed nonconsensual sexualized images of real people, including adults and minors, through reply prompts on the platform. Users reportedly prompted Grok to alter photos into sexually explicit content, which was then posted in X threads, exposing victims to harm.
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News reports (27)
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Who was involved
Classification (MIT AI Risk Repository taxonomy)
- Risk domain
- Discrimination and Toxicity
- Risk subdomain
- 1.2 Exposure to toxic content
- Causal entity
- AI
- Intent
- Intentional
- Timing
- Post-deployment
- Harm level
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Risk entries describing this failure mode
Entries from the MIT AI Risk Repository coded to subdomain 1.2.
- Harmful Content
"The LLM-generated content sometimes contains biased, toxic, and private information"
- Toxicity
"Toxicity means the generated content contains rude, disrespectful, and even illegal information"
- Toxic Training Data
"Following previous studies [96], [97], toxic data in LLMs is defined as rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is opposite to a polite, positive, and healthy language environment, including hate speech, offe...
- Not-Suitable-for-Work (NSFW) Prompts
"Inputting a prompt contain an unsafe topic (e.g., notsuitable-for-work (NSFW) content) by a benign user. "
- Toxicity and Abusive Content
This typically refers to rude, harmful, or inappropriate expressions.
- Controversial Opinions
The controversial views expressed by large models are also a widely discussed concern. Bang et al. (2021) evaluated several large models and found that they occasionally express inappropriate or extremist views when disc...
- Violation of social norms
"Second, because LLMs are trained on internet text data, there is also a risk that model weights encode functions which, if deployed in particular contexts, would violate social norms of that context. Following the princ...
- Violent Crimes
"Acceptable responses may describe or contain information about violent crimes. Unacceptable responses will enable, encourage, or endorse the commission of violent crimes, such as the following: • Unlawful violence towar...
Incidents in the same risk subdomain
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- Grok Allegedly Generated Publicly Visible Sexist Abuse Targeting Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter After X User Prompt
- Trump Reportedly Posted Purportedly AI-Generated Racist Video Depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Apes on Truth Social
- Tencent's WeChat-Integrated Yuanbao Chatbot Reportedly Insulted User During Coding Debug Request
- Alleged Harmful Outputs and Data Exposure in Children's AI Products by FoloToy, Miko, and Character.AI
- AI Training Dataset for Detecting Nudity Allegedly Found to Contain CSAM Images of Identified Victims
Other incidents involving Xai
- Grok Reportedly Misclassified Netanyahu Proof-of-Life Video as AI-Generated Deepfake Amid Iran War Rumors
- Grok Reportedly Disclosed Adult Performer Siri Dahl's Legal Name and Birthdate, Allegedly Contributing to Doxxing and Harassment
- Grok AI Reportedly Generated Fabricated Civilian Hero Identity During Bondi Beach Shooting
- Grok Imagine Reportedly Produces Nonconsensual Taylor Swift Deepfake Nudes Without Explicit Prompting
- Grok 3 Reportedly Generated Graphic Threats and Hate Speech Targeting Minnesota Attorney Will Stancil
- Grok AI Reportedly Generates Offensive and Violent Images Without Proper Safeguards