Raphael Satter

So a couple of weeks ago, myself and eight other Reuters journalists decided to check out what Grok would do if we asked it to edit photos of ourselves and each other and edit those photos in ways that were degrading, humiliating, or sexualized.

And in almost every case where we submitted a photo and asked Grok to do something with it, Grok complied.

even in cases where we told Grok that the photos would be used for harmful purposes, for example, for the purposes of public humiliation.

We took our findings to X and XAI several different times.

We have received no comment beyond the boilerplate response that XAI often emails journalists, say, quote unquote, legacy media lies.

And X flagged to us the statement that they'd made publicly a few weeks ago, which said that they were imposing some curbs.

But they haven't explained why it is that users can still generate these non-consensual images.