Illegal Images Allegedly Made by Musk’s Grok, Watchdog Says

The Internet Watch Foundation’s findings escalate concerns that Grok is being used to create illegal material. 

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The UK watchdog responsible for classifying and flagging online child sexual abuse material to law enforcement agencies said it found “criminal” images on the dark web allegedly generated by Grok, the artificial intelligence tool tied to Elon Musk’s X.

The dark web images depict “sexualized and topless” images of girls between the ages of 11 and 13 and meet the bar for action by law enforcement, the Internet Watch Foundation said. The organization categorized the material as clearly illegal, unlike anything it found generated by the Grok chatbot on X.