Kate Conger

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Hard Fork · Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

She knows what's happening but isn't seeing it.

But her parents are monitoring her social media and seeing these images pop up, which I think is really frightening for them.

And then, you know, reaching out to Twitter and to advocacy groups trying to get these images removed and, you know, just being really frustrated by the amount of time that it's taking.

And I think being really outraged as well that, you know, someone can go online and request a nude image of their 14 year old and that this technology will comply with it in a really public fashion.

Yeah, I think for some people it feels, you know, really angering.

I'm hearing a lot of anger from folks and also embarrassing.

I've talked to some women who...

question whether to do anything about it or say anything about the fact that it happened to them because they feel embarrassed by it and they don't necessarily want to draw more attention to the fact that these images of them now exist on the internet.

Yeah, you know, I think about this in particular with some of the politicians who I'm seeing being deepfaked.

You know, it's people who, you know, female politicians who the users of X maybe don't agree with their views and are taking images of them from, you know, their public work and advocacy and requesting for those to be made nude or to depict them in a bikini or whatever the case may be.

And so I think there's a real...

Real obvious effort there to embarrass and to kind of warp these images of someone in their professional life into a really personal and intimate image.

Yes.

Yeah, so first of all, this is not, I think, the beginning of Grok generating these kinds of images as I've been tracing back through the images that Grok has been posting, finding images like this of women going back to June and July of last year.

So I think this has been going on

in sort of a lower volume for quite some time.

And it really escalated over the holidays and with people kind of making it into a trend on X. But, you know, in our reporting about the Mecca Hitler incident, what we found was that Elon Musk had given a directive to the folks working on Grok that he wanted it to go viral.

He wanted it to be edgier.

sort of as a strategy to promote the tool and to get it onto people's radars.

And the company perspective was that, obviously, with Mecca, Hitler went too far.

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