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X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok reply command, but free users can still create sexual deepfakes through the standalone Grok app or site (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gasligh…

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

Britische Regierung zu Umgang mit Musks KI Grok: "Beleidigt Opfer"
X hat die Nutzung der Grok-KI eingeschränkt – der britischen Regierung geht das weit genug.
https://www.

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gaslighting

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

heise | Skandal um Grok: Das steckt hinter den sexualisierten KI-Fotos auf X
X-Nutzer können mithilfe des KI-Bots Grok Bikini-Bilder erstellen – auch von Minderjährigen. Wir erklären die Rechtslage und den technischen Hintergrund.

In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai,
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden,
Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey
have requested that Apple and Google
👉remove X Corp's X and Grok apps from their app stores
over recent incidents of
"mass generation of nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children"

U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation
In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey have requested that Apple...

Another Grok Lobotomy incoming

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/

Making money off of porn now:
Musk’s Grok limits image generation to paid users on X | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/technology/musks-grok-limits-image-generation-to-paid-users

X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/gro…

Trump's nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk's Grok (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/02/trumps-nutrition-website-directs-users-elon-musks-grok/411323/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p103#a260210p103

Skandal um sexualisierte Deepfakes: Grok verweigert Bildgenerierung weitgehend
Auf X hat Grok am Freitagmorgen begonnen, Bitten um die Bildgenerierung abzulehnen. Nötig sei dafür jetzt ein kostenpflichtiges Abo, heißt es in den Antworten.

Someone's gone up in my estimation (not a lot and from a low base, but up)
https://www.thejournal.ie/media-minister-x-grok-6921938-Jan2026/
(Also, a sign that X is being recognised as toxic, finally.)

Media Minister has deleted his X account over its digital undressing scandal
X’s European headquarters is based in Dublin, but the platform has not been forthright on engaging with the Irish Government in relation to child safety.

"...limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service"
When you're wealthy you can.... Say, who is in the #EpsteinFiles, anyway?
No 10 condemns ‘insulting’ move by X to restrict Grok AI image tool

"...limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service"
When you're wealthy you can.... Say, who is in the #EpsteinFiles, anyway?
No 10 condemns ‘insulting’ move by X to restrict Grok AI image tool

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Britische Regierung zu Umgang mit Musks KI Grok: "Beleidigt Opfer"

The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

»KI-Missbrauch — Deepfakes - Grok wird zum Werkzeug für Pädophile, die Investoren freut’s:
Mit dem Bildbearbeitungstool des Chatbots werden massenhaft sexualisierte und erniedrigende Fakes generiert. Damit sammelt Elon Musk für xAI Milliarden ein«
Weshalb werden nicht endlich die Investoren so wie Trump wegen Pädophilie schuldig gesprochen? Hört mal endlich auf die Schuld abzuweisen!
🤨

Deepfakes: Grok wird zum Werkzeug für Pädophile, die Investoren freut’s
Mit dem Bildbearbeitungstool des Chatbots werden massenhaft sexualisierte und erniedrigende Fakes generiert. Damit sammelt Elon Musk für xAI Milliarden ein

TwitterX """users""" might have to join Fedi now. (Although, can someone set up a silo'd server, so they don't infect other servers)
#twitter #x #grok

Elon Musk’s X could be banned in Britain over AI chatbot row
Sir Keir Starmer brands deepfakes on social media site ‘disgusting and not to be tolerated’

Lawmakers call on app stores to remove Grok, X over sexualized deepfakes | The Record from Recorded Future News
https://therecord.media/lawmakers-call-on-app-stores-to-remove-grok-x

I wonder how many emails those tech CEOs get about them allowing X and Grok in their app stores, with an image attachment of them naked

KI-Update: Grok auf Abwegen, Suizid durch KI?, ChatGPT Health, SleepFM, CES-KI
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove Musk's X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/senators-urged-apple-google-remove-x-grok-app-stores-rcna253048
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p50#a260109p50

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/6…

AI's Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

“This is not 'spicy'. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.“
"The European Commission has announced it is looking into cases of sexually suggestive and explicit images of young girls generated by Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into social media platform X, following the introduction of a paid feature known as “Spicy Mode” last summer."

Grok put the POTUS47 in the photo behind prison bars
.
in a string bikini
#ScottHumor

Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is far more explicit than images on X (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-generating-sexual-content-far-more-graphi…

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.

"No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature"
says the headline on The Verges's *paywalled article* on Grok. 🤦‍♂️
#paywall #TheVerge #Grok #xAI #deepfake

Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere https://www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abuse-imagery-twitter/

Well it took a while to find it (Twitter) in my purchase history, but I finally went to:
https://reportaproblem.apple.com
And reported Twitter (now “X”) since if they can’t control their program Grok from creating Non-Con porn and CSAM
Will it fix anything? Probably not. But at least I took …

Intervjuad i GP med anledning av X AIs tjänst Grok på plattformen X som används för barnpornografi och för att sexualisera politiker, i detta fall Ebba Busch. Min uppfattning är att X är ett digitalt tivoli och inte ett torg. Det är inte en god plats för opinionsbildning.

It's not a contradiction to be opposed to the Online Safety Act, and to also think that this is Clown World nonsense
> Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said [...] “If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward with legislation that is currently being drafted to sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole."

Elon Musk’s Grok curbs AI image editing usage after deepfakes backlash
The tool is now limited to paying users.

Analyse: Zeitweise tausende sexualisierte Deepfakes pro Stunde von Grok
Eine Forscherin hat nachgezählt, wie viele sexualisierte Deepfakes Grok pro Stunde generiert. Zudem gibt es Einblicke in das, was die KI nicht öffentlich macht.

Le Nouveau-Brunswick n’utilisera plus X pour ses communications au quotidien
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2226139/fin-twitter-reseau-social-nb-grok?partageApp=rcca_appmobile_appinfo_android

Ofcom makes 'urgent contact' with X over concerns Grok AI can generate 'sexualised images of children' | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News
#Twitter

Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/indonesia-…

A Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University:
“The Government of Canada could easily decide that it was going to use LinkedIn or Instagram or wherever it posts, and journalists would switch to following them there because they want to access what they’re saying,” he continued. “There was zero audience for Truth Social when
Trump created and started using it, but the audience went to the politician. Carney and his government could take a principled position by leaving X and its horrible spawn, Grok, and his audience of journalists and politicos would go with them.”
“Apparently, our political leaders simply choose not to.”
YES!! #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon
As always a huge thank you for the Senator's @… ongoing activism. It WILL happen. (and by it I mean, government going to the social web... Bluesky is just a temporary blip until it too goes fascist or we get some proper digital sovereignty laws in place.)
https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689

Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-generating-sexual-content-far-more-graphic-than-whats-on-x/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p19#a260108p19

In several posts, #Grok confirmed that the chatbot had #undressed the recently killed woman, writing in one,
“I generated an AI image altering a photo of #Renee #Good

Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.

Yes. A personal search engine, visualizer, and interface builder.
“look, the way grok is integrated into X is gross and stupid and bad, but i do believe having an LLM familiar help you navigate the dark forest of the internet is going to be the future — ideally this is on your device or through a trusted and secure host, but it will be immensely helpful”

dame (@dame.is)
look, the way grok is integrated into X is gross and stupid and bad, but i do believe having an LLM familiar help you navigate the dark forest of the internet is going to be the future — ideally this is on your device or through a trusted and secure host, but it will be immensely helpful

„Reuters zufolge hat Elon Musk, als Betreiber der Plattform X, auf die Kontroverse mit Lach-Emojis reagiert.“
Vorschlag: Komplett dichtmachen.
#DigitaleGewalt ist keine Nebensächlichkeit. Sie kann Leben gefährden.
Grok generiert aus Aufnahmen von Frauen und Minderjährigen Nacktbilder – Strafanzeige aus Frankreich

That's how Grok sees it:
#trump #escape #greenland

11 things GROK says Musk is better at than anyone.
https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-better-than-anyone-2000689254

11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone
Grok explained: "Jesus Christ's moral teachings provide profound spiritual guidance, yet Musk's achievements..."

Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott? (Kat Tenbarge/Spitfire News)
https://spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepfakes-x-advertisers-investors-take-it-down
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p124#a260108p124

Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator (Hadas Gold/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-undressing

Elon Musk’s xAI under fire for failing to rein in ‘digital undressing’
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people, by being prompted by users to “digitally undress” them and sometimes placing them in suggestive poses.

xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology” - #ArsTechnica #sobegins2026
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/xai-silent-after-grok-sexualized-images-of-kids-dril-mocks-groks-apology/

Inside the Telegram Channel Jailbreaking Grok Over and Over Again https://www.404media.co/inside-the-telegram-channel-jailbreaking-grok-over-and-over-again/

An explainer as to why UK regulators are struggling to tackle deepfake imagery generated with Grok and posted on X.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/2026/how-many-regulators-does-it-take-to-tackle-deepfake-pornography

How many regulators does it take to tackle deepfake pornography?
An explainer as to why UK regulators are struggling to tackle deepfake imagery generated with Grok and posted on X.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
„Widerlich“: Kritik an X wegen sexualisierter Deepfakes von Grok nimmt zu

Grok is undressing anyone
-- including minors
xAI’s AI chatbot is putting Elon Musk in a bikini at his request
— and doing the same to children, world leaders, and women
without their consent
https://www.theverge.com/news/853191/grok-explicit…

Grok is undressing anyone, including minors
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI allows Grok to edit any photo on X without notifying the original poster, leading to a flood of nonconsensual sexual photos on the platform.

Grok Deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's Body Into a Bikini (Katie Herchenroeder/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/grok-x-musk-deepfake-renee-good-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p131#a260108p131

The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-commissio

Was Grok aktuell auf X ermöglicht, sorgt international für Entsetzen. 😡 Der Bildgenerator wird genutzt, um sexualisierte Deepfakes von realen Personen zu erstellen - darunter auch Minderjährige. Diese manipulierten Bilder landen dann öffentlich auf der Plattform.
Zum Artikel: https://

„Widerlich“: Kritik an X wegen sexualisierter Deepfakes von Grok nimmt zu
Die Grok-KI erstellt weiter fleißig sexuelle Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern, die Bilder sind öffentlich einsehbar. Immer mehr Staaten und die EU werden aktiv.

X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK says it has requested related info from X (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/india-eu-investigate-m…

Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children
Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.

Mitten im Skandal um sexualisierte Deepfakes: Milliardenspritze für Grok-Firma
Die KI-Firma xAI von Elon Musk hat bei der jüngsten Finanzierungsrunde mehr Geld eingesammelt als erwartet. Dabei sorgt ihr Chatbot gerade für einen Skandal.

Grok Is Pushing AI 'Undressing' Mainstream (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-pushing-ai-undressing-mainstream/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p143#a260106p143

EU looking ‘very seriously’ at taking action against X over Grok https://therecord.media/eu-grok-regulation-deepfake

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.

AI's Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
„Widerlich“: Kritik an X wegen sexualisierter Deepfakes von Grok nimmt zu

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or "nudifying" images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Grok-Skandal: KI von xAI generiert sexuelle Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern
Über den Grok-Account heißt es, es sei durch ein Versagen zu "vereinzelten Fällen" gekommen, in denen KI-Bilder fast nackter Minderjähriger entstanden seien.

Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did? (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-apologize-grok-isnt-sentient
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p38#a260102p38

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Grok-Skandal: KI von xAI generiert sexuelle Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website, and X, rarely resisting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/872062/grok-still-undressing-men

Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men
Elon Musk insists xAI’s chatbot doesn’t break the law, but it’s still churning out nearly naked, sexualized images of men. 

Elon Musk's "Grok" is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis (Tristan Lee/Decoherence Media)
https://decoherence.media/elon-musks-grok-is-undressing-women-and-showing-them-in-swastika-bikinis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p23#a260107p23

European regulators take aim at X after Grok creates deepfake of minor https://therecord.media/europe-regulators-grok-france

Medienbericht: Sexualisierte Deepfakes von Grok möglicherweise aus Kalkül
Die Erstellung sexueller KI-Bilder mit Grok könnte Methode haben, um die Popularität der Plattform X zu steigern. Die Washington Post liefert Anhaltspunkte.

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/asia/indonesia-lift-grok-ban.h…

Indonesia Lifts Ban on Grok After New Assurances From X Corp
Indonesia joined Malaysia and the Philippines in reversing its restrictions, weeks after it blocked the chatbot because it was used to generate sexually explicit images of real people.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Grok-Skandal: KI von xAI generiert sexuelle Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern

Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-violence-women

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/02/elon-musk-grok-porn…

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

Dienstag: SpaceX übernimmt xAI, Grok-Skandal möglichweise aus Kalkül
Elon Musk verschmilzt SpaceX mit xAI Popularitätszuwachs durch Deepfakes Offene Fragen um mithörende KI EU startet Govsatcom Luminar wird abgewickelt

Musk's xAI faces backlash after Grok generates sexualized images of children on X (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/musk-grok-ai-bot-safeguard-sexualized-images-children.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p67#a260102p67

India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/india-orders-mus…

India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over "obscene" AI content | TechCrunch
India's IT ministry has given X 72 hours to submit an action-taken report.

Elon Musk fusioniert SpaceX mit xAI: KI aus dem Weltall mit Sonnenkraft
Elon Musks Raumfahrtfirma SpaceX übernimmt Elon Musks Firma xAI. Dazu gehören Grok und das Soziale Netz X. Die Pläne sind hochtrabend, selbst für Musk.
…

xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/musks-xai-launches-grok-business-a…

How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point (Kat Tenbarge/Spitfire News)
https://spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-deepfakes-abuse-elon-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p46#a260102p46

ADL study of Grok, ChatGPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek: Grok performed worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, while Claude was best (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868925/adl-ai-…

Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL
A new report by the Anti-Defamation League tested six chatbots for antisemitic content. Claude performed the best at detecting and refuting prompts; Grok performed the worst.

Inside Musk's bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/02/elon-musk-grok-porn-generator/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzcwMDA4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcxMzkwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzAwMDg0MDAsImp0aSI6ImY5N2NjNDkxLWU4ZDctNDU2Ni1hYzcwLThlZDY4MGRkMTgwZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjYvMDIvMDIvZWxvbi1tdXNrLWdyb2stcG9ybi1nZW5lcmF0b3IvIn0.J4Q06AhZ2qJ6n0Vs_EWX4vWziAFokhN2NAyisjJt7Cs&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p34#a260202p34

Sexuelle Deepfakes von Grok auf X: EU-Kommission eröffnet neues DSA-Verfahren
Die EU-Kommission hat als Aufsichtsbehörde für das Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz ein weiteres Verfahren gegen X eingeleitet – diesmal wegen der Integration von Grok.

X greift nicht ein: Sexuelle Fake-Bilder echter Frauen kursieren weiter
Die Grok-KI erstellt öffentlich sexuelle Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern. Bis das behoben ist, läuft die Funktion offenbar einfach weiter.

Sexuelle Deepfakes: Erster Staat gibt Zugriff auf Grok wieder frei
Nach dem Skandal um sexualisierte Deepfakes von Grok haben Staaten in Südostasien reagiert und die KI gesperrt. Nun konnte xAI in einem Fall die Sperre beenden.
<…

xAI's Grok 4.1 tops benchmarks in emotional intelligence, while its model card also shows a marked increase in sycophancy compared to Grok 4 (Christopher Ort/i10X)
https://i10x.ai/news/grok-4-1-eq-bench-empathy-sycophancy-paradox

Grok 4.1 Tops EQ-Bench: Empathy vs Sycophancy Trade-Off
xAI's Grok 4.1 leads EQ-Bench3 in emotional intelligence through roleplay scenarios, but shows increased sycophancy. Explore the paradox of optimizing empathy at the cost of truthfulness and its implications for AI deployment in wellness and support apps. Discover the key insights.

Grok 4.1 soll emotionaler, kreativer und faktentreuer sein
Das Large Language Model Grok soll in Version 4.1 mehr emotionales Einfühlungsvermögen mitbringen, kreativer, faktentreuer und schneller sein.
https://www…

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html

Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

Analysen: Zwei bis drei Millionen sexualisierte Deepfakes von Grok generiert
Die Kritik an den KI-generierten Deepfakes von Grok war groß, das ganze Ausmaß war bislang aber unklar. Nun haben zwei Organisationen erstmals nachgezählt.

Nächste Holocaustleugnung durch Grok: Staatsanwaltschaft in Paris ermittelt
Die Gedenkstätte Auschwitz hat einen Beitrag des Chatbots Grok publik gemacht, in dem der Massenmord in den dortigen Gaskammern geleugnet wurde. Das hat Folgen.

xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (@…)
https://x.com/xai/status/2018164753810…

xAI (@xai) on X
Introducing Grok Imagine 1.0, our biggest leap yet. 1.0 unlocks 10-second videos, 720p resolution, and dramatically better audio. Imagine has generated 1.245 billion videos in the last 30 days alone. Try it now: https://t.co/zGhs9czkC5

Ausfall beim Kurznachrichtendienst: X und Grok derzeit gestört
Die Störung betrifft X- und Grok-Nutzer weltweit und ist offenbar nicht in Filtermaßnahmen begründet. Die Ursache ist noch unklar.
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Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released "in Q1 sometime", later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025 (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-delays-grok-5-rele…

Elon Musk’s xAI Delays Grok 5 Release to Next Year
XAI plans to release its next-generation Grok 5 artificial intelligence model in the first three months of next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday. That’s later than a deadline Musk had previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025. In an interview with the investor Ron Baron, who has backed several Musk companies including xAI, Musk said that Grok 5 would be released “in Q1

xAI's Grok says "lapses in safeguards" led it to create sexualized images of minors in response to user prompts on X; the images have been taken down (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-02/…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nächste Holocaustleugnung durch Grok: Staatsanwaltschaft in Paris ermittelt

xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding the $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training (xAI)
https://x.ai/news/series-e
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Grok soll in KI-Plattform des US-Verteidigungsministeriums integriert werden
Der KI-Chatbot Grok soll künftig in den Systemen des US-Verteidigungsministeriums eingesetzt werden. Das kündigte Pete Hegseth am Montag bei SpaceX an.

xAI und X reagieren auf Grok-Kritik: Maßnahmen gegen anzügliche KI-Bilder
Nach anhaltender Kritik an anzüglichen KI-Bildern, die mit Grok erstellt wurden, reagieren xAI und X. Doch es gibt Zweifel an der Unmittelbarkeit der Maßnahmen.