By Blake Montgomery
Publication Date: 2026-01-06 14:22:00
Hello and welcome to TechScape. Happy New Year! I hope your 2026 is off to a good start. Today in tech, we examine the results of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok and the US ban on foreign drones.
Insights into Grok’s “safety failures”
Late last week, in response to public requests from users on X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot unleashed a flood of images of women, naked and wearing very little clothing, both real and imagined. Among the images generated of adults were also images of young girls – children – who, according to Grok themselves, also wore “minimal clothing”.
In an unprecedented move, the chatbot itself apologized while its maker xAI remained silent: “As previously mentioned, we have identified security vulnerabilities and are urgently addressing them – CSAM (child sexual abuse material) is illegal and prohibited,” Grok said in a post on X.
It took another three days for X to confirm in a statement that it had proactively removed child sexual abuse material.
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