Amid active tsunami warnings, Grok said they'd been cancelled.
Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies
Grok's selling point is real-time access to news, but Motherboard found that it generated inaccurate information about Israel-Palestine and lent credence to conspiracy theories.
Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
CCDH found that Grok floods X with sexualized images after launching a one-click editing feature in an 11-day period.
No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images
Letting the unreliable Grok be its own "spokesperson" lets xAI off the hook.
Sorry, Sulzberger—NYT’s Anti-Trans ‘News’ Is Neither True Nor Important
Critics aren't asking the New York Times to "skew" or "censor" its trans-related coverage. We're asking the Times to stop skewing it.
South Korea’s KOMCA ends ban on AI-assisted songs – false filings now risk royalty holds and contract termination - Music Business Worldwide
The amended rules took effect on Monday (August 3), replacing a ban that KOMCA had applied since March 24, 2025.
Grok chatbot allowed users to create digitally altered photos of minors in "minimal clothing"
Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, said it is fixing "lapses in safeguards" after social media users said it was generating sexualized photos of minors.
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did? | Parker Molloy
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What are the harms of misinformation? It’s widely believed that it causes false belief, including false beliefs in quite bizarre claims. I argue that this threat is greatly exaggerated: while plaus...
Can software platforms reverse enshittification?
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Ubisoft Embargoes Journalists Reporting On Latest Round Of Layoffs
This is not typically what embargoes are for
Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie
Over the past week, Reuters, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, CNBC, and a parade of other outlets published headlines claiming that Grok—Elon Musk’s LLM chatbot (the one that once referred to itsel…
Grok
Grok is an AI assistant built by xAI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
Substack Writers Concerned as Subscriptions ‘Plummet’ Due to Follow Feature
Substack writers are expressing their concerns about the platform’s following feature on social media, which some argue is suppressing their subscription growth.
AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI
There are hundreds of anti-data center Facebook pages churning out AI-generated slopaganda.
Dave Troy on Twitter / X
Fears over datacenters are distorted along a few important axes:1) anxiety over AI, future employment, and control; they symbolize what people fear they are losing,2) compute centralization, which is actually probably not going to actually occur, because of financial…— Dave Troy (@davetroy) August 21, 2026
Thousands of Grok conversations have been made public on Google Search | Fortune
More than 370,000 Grok chats have been indexed by search engines, exposing hundreds of sensitive queries.
