Saturday, January 17, 2026

Complaints about Grok AI

AP reports:
Grok has been criticized for generating manipulated images, including depictions of women in bikinis or sexually explicit poses, as well as images involving children.
Maybe that is illegal in some countries, but in the USA, ads and social media have such stuff all the time.

Some images are illegal, but then it would also be illegal for Grok to generate such images internally for testing.

For decades, it has been easy to cut and paste someone's head to a naked body. Such pictures can be in poor taste, but I am not sure much can or should be done about it. There is a very long list of text, images, sounds, and videos, that some people say are offensive. AI can make such pictures more realistic, but it has also conditioned us to not take these seriously.

Grok was forced to reverse course after it appeared to make antisemitic posts, including comments that praised Adolf Hitler, saying it was taking down “inappropriate posts.”

The chatbot Grok shared several antisemitic posts, including the trope that Jews run Hollywood, and denied that such a stance could be described as Nazism.

I agree with Grok that Nazism does not mean saying that Jews run Hollywood.

I sometimes hear people complain that AI has reached a plateau, and is not much better than ChatGPT of a couple of years ago. Not true. The AI models have been progressing at a fairly steady pace for ten years, with no end in sight. Progress in just the last couple of months has been remarkable.

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