Elon Musk declared that his X platform’s AI bot Grok “is on the side of the angels” after retweeting a post which claimed that other AI bots are “super racist” towards white people.
His comment also comes amid backlash over the AI chatbot being used to make sexualized deep fake images, including explicit non-consensual depictions of women and children with their clothes removed.
Yahoo news reports: The post comes hours after xAI announced it has raised $20bn in its latest funding round, with some of the companies participating in the round including Nvidia, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Valor Equity Partners.
However, global concern has mounted following xAI’s recent rollout of an “edit image” button on Grok, which allowed users to edit existing images through prompts such as “put her in a bikini” or “remove her clothes.”
Earlier this week, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer and alleged mother to one of Musk’s children, claimed Grok had been used to generate photos of her undressing as a child, based on a real photograph taken when she was 14.
“Grok is now undressing photos of me as a child. This is a website where the owner says to post photos of your children. I really don’t care if people want to call me ‘scorned’; this is objectively horrifying, illegal, and if it has happened to anybody else, DM me. I got time,” she wrote in an X post.
Images of Catherine, Princess of Wales, were also among those digitally stripped by Grok users on X.
Amid a barrage of posts promoting Grok, Musk has also warned that anyone using Grok to generate illegal content would “suffer the same consequences” as if they uploaded it themselves.