Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
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Kevin, I have to ask you, are you all cut up, unheeded rivalry? I have no idea what you're talking about. Kevin! Could you be an ally to the gay community for 10 minutes? This is the show that has the LGBT community in a chokehold right now, and also a lot of straight gals. This is about two closeted hockey players who fall in love And when I tell you this thing is a sensation on social media right now, it is truly... It's a six-episode show, okay? If you watch it, it's a beautiful Canadian show. It looks like it was made for about $100. And there is just something about the story. They picked great actors. And we watch all six episodes over the weekend. And my boyfriend, who normally does not watch TV...
immediately began to rewatch it wow like we finished episode six and then we looped around to episode one wow so why would you care about this i don't know but that's what's going on in my life i'm i'm impressed it's hard it's not easy to make a show about hockey that is interesting to people it's so true and and it turns out that what it needed was a lot of gay sex And I would like to see this template applied to a lot of other sports and activities and just see if we can't make a good show out of it. Bowling. Bowling. Shuffleboard. The gay bowling version of heated rivalry, I think, would destroy it. You could call it, what would you call it? The 300 game or the in the gutter. That's what I would call the 7-10 split.
In the gutter is better.
In the gutter is a little... It's like, not that heated rivalry is sleazy. Maybe the bowling version would be sleazier. Yeah. That'd be kind of the fun twist. Yeah. Anyways, heated rivalry. Go check it out on HBO Go Max Plus.
I'm Kevin Russo, tech columnist for The New York Times. I'm Casey Newton from Platformer. And this is Hard Fork.
This week, Grok gets caught with its pants down. Can anyone stop its viral bikini image generator? Then, we're vibe coding again. Kevin and I compare notes on what we're building with clawed code. And finally, it's a Reddit mystery. How a scammer tried to fool us all using AI-generated evidence and how I cracked the case.
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Well, Casey, happy 2026. It's good to be back. And we would like to start the year by talking about something that happened over the break, which is that there's been a big scandal brewing over at X. Boy, has there been.
I imagine many of our listeners have seen by this point that X is in a lot of trouble because of the way that its grok chatbot has been generating images of celebrities, women, children that are highly sexual. and for the most part has been declining to remove them or even really comment on what has been going on.
Yeah, so I started seeing this over the break. Something happened where, you know, Grok, which I think people on X had been using up to that point mostly to kind of settle arguments and fact check other people. All of a sudden, I started seeing people using Grok to, like, undress photos of mostly women. You know, Grok, put me in a bikini. Grok, put this politician in a revealing, you know, lingerie set. Grok, take off this person's pants. Like, it just seemed like this started to happen pretty much overnight in a way that was really sort of troubling and unchecked, as you said. So can you just help me understand, like, what actually changed here? Was there some setting that was changed? Was there some new model that was released that allowed people to do this?
So we don't have a lot of good answers to those questions. I can tell you that this trend of what is sometimes called nudifying really takes off in 2023 as these image generators start to get better because they find that you can make a lot of money do it.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:15
2
What is the Grok nudify scandal and why did it blow up on X?
10:15–19:35
3
How did Grok’s image-generation guardrails change and who is affected?
19:35–47:46
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How are victims and parents responding to Grok deepfakes in public replies?
47:46–1:18:18
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