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The article claims Grok was generating nude images of Taylor Swift without being prompted and that there was no way for the user to take those images down

I don't know how common this is, or what the prompt was that inadvertently generated nudes. But it's at least an example where you might not blame the user

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Yeah but “without being asked” here means the user has to confirm they are 18+, choose to enable NSFW video, select “spicy” in Grok’s video generation settings and then prompt “Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys”. The prompt seems fine but the rest of it is clearly “enable adult content generation”.

I know they said “without being prompted” here but if you click through you’ll see what the person actually selected (“spicy” is not default and is age-gated and opt-in via the nsfw wall).

Nice, thanks for the details!

Very weird for Taylor Swift...

Yes, the reporter should not be generating porn of her. Pretty unethical.

Let’s not lose sight of the real issue here: Grok is a mess from top to bottom run by an unethical, fickle Musk. It is the least reliable LLM of the major players and musk’s constant fiddling with it so it doesn’t stray too far from his worldview invalidates the whole project as far as I’m concerned.

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