{"id":21495,"date":"2026-01-09T17:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/grok-is-undressing-women-and-children-dont-expect-the-us-to-take-action-moira-donegan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:37:39","slug":"grok-is-undressing-women-and-children-dont-expect-the-us-to-take-action-moira-donegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/grok-is-undressing-women-and-children-dont-expect-the-us-to-take-action-moira-donegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok is undressing women and children. Don\u2019t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak up<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Elon Musk has made a series of protocol changes to Grok, the proprietary AI chatbot of his company xAI, which runs prominently on his social media site X, formerly Twitter. Many of these changes have been geared to make the bot more amenable to producing pornography. In August 2025, Grok launched an image generator, branded as Grok Imagine, which featured a service geared toward creating nude, suggestive, or sexually explicit content, including computer-generated pornographic images of real women. The feature, which was quickly used to create naked images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, also allowed users to create brief videos, complete with animations and sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Musk also rolled out AI girlfriends on the platform: animated personas \u2013 including female characters with exaggerated breasts and hips \u2013 that interacted in sexually explicit ways with users. One of the characters, \u201cAni\u201d, was an anime-style cartoon blonde with a series of skimpy outfits; the bot blew kisses and addressed users as \u201cmy love\u201d while directing the chats toward sexual content.<\/p>\n<p>Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jan\/09\/grok-undressing-women-children-us-action\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ed942953d6d0fb965fb474a1e6a7011b5b5a396a\/673_0_6733_5386\/master\/6733.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7502e60e8a9220f7d4444eabf825ae0d\" title=\"Grok is undressing women and children. Don\u2019t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan\" \/>Elon Musk\u2019s reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak up<br \/>\nOver the past year, Elon Musk has made a series of protocol changes to Grok, the proprietary AI chatbot of his company xAI, which runs prominently on his social media site X, formerly Twitter. Many of these changes have been geared to make the bot more amenable to producing pornography. In August 2025, Grok launched an image generator, branded as Grok Imagine, which featured a service geared toward creating nude, suggestive, or sexually explicit content, including computer-generated pornographic images of real women. The feature, which was quickly used to create naked images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, also allowed users to create brief videos, complete with animations and sounds.<br \/>\nMusk also rolled out AI girlfriends on the platform: animated personas \u2013 including female characters with exaggerated breasts and hips \u2013 that interacted in sexually explicit ways with users. One of the characters, \u201cAni\u201d, was an anime-style cartoon blonde with a series of skimpy outfits; the bot blew kisses and addressed users as \u201cmy love\u201d while directing the chats toward sexual content.<br \/>\nMoira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak up Over the past year, Elon Musk has made a series of protocol changes to Grok, the proprietary AI chatbot of his company xAI, which runs prominently on his social media site X, formerly Twitter. Many of these changes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/grok-is-undressing-women-and-children-dont-expect-the-us-to-take-action-moira-donegan\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grok is undressing women and children. 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