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I'm not much on X anymore due to the vitriol, and visiting now kinda proved it. Beneath almost every trending post made by a female is someone using grok to sexualize a picture of them.

(And whatever my timeline has become now is why I don't visit more often, wtf, used to only be cycling related)

Edit: just to bring receipts, 3 instances in a few scrolls: https://x.com/i/status/2007949859362672673 https://x.com/i/status/2007945902799941994 https://x.com/i/status/2008134466926150003

I left when they started putting verified (paid) comments at the top of every conversation. Having the worst nazi views front and center on every comment isn't really a great experience.
I normally stay away too, but just decided to scroll through grok’s replies to see how wide spread it really is. It looks like it is a pretty big problem, and not just for women. Though, I must say that Xi Jinping in a bikini made me laugh.

I’m not sure if this is much worse than the textual hate and harassment being thrown around willy nilly over there. That negativity is really why I never got into it, even when it was twitter I thought it was gross.

> Beneath almost every trending post made by a female is someone using grok to sexualize a picture of them.

It's become a bit of a meme to do this right now on X.

FWIW (very little), it's also on a lot of male posts, as well. None of that excuses this behavior.

X wrote in offering to pay something for my OG username, because fElon wanted it for one of his Grok characters. I told them to make an offer, only for them to invoke their Terms of Service and steal it instead.

Fuck X.

Hmm, I have an old Twitter account. Elon promised that he was going to make it the best site ever, lets see what the algorithm feeds me today, January 5 2026.

1. Denmark taxes its rich people and has a high standard of living.

2. Scammy looking ad for investments in a blood screening company.

3. Guy clearing ice from a drainpipe, old video but fun to watch.

4. Oil is not actually a fossil fuel, it is "a gift from the Earth"

5. Elon himself reposting a racist fabrication about black people in Minnesota.

6. Climate change is a liberal lie to destroy western civilization. CO2 is plant food, liberals are trying to starve the world by killing off the plants.

7. Something about an old lighthouse surviving for a long time.

8. Vaccine conspiracy theories

9. Outright racism against Africans, claiming they are too dumb to sustain civilized society without white men running it.

10. One of those bullshit AI videos where the AI doesn't understand how pouring resin works.

11. Microsoft released an AI that is going to change everything, for real this time, we promise.

12. Climate change denialism

13. A post claiming that the Africa and South America aren't poor because they were robbed of resources during the colonial era and beyond, but because they are too dumb to run their countries.

14. A guy showing how you can pack fragile items using expanding foam and plastic bags. He makes it look effortless, but glosses over how he measures out the amount of foam to use.

15. Hornypost asking Grok to undress a young Asian lady standing in front of a tree.

16. Post claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine caused a massive spike (5 million to 150 million) cases of myocarditis.

17. A sad post from a guy depressed that a survey of college girls said that a large majority of them find MAGA support to be a turn off.

18. Some film clip with Morgan Freeman standing on a X and getting sniped from an improbable distance

19. AI bullshit clip about people walking into bottomless pits

20. A video clip of a woman being confused as to why financial aid forms now require you to list your ethnicity when you click on "white", with the only suboptions being German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, and French.

Special bonus post: Peter St Ogne, Ph. D claims "The Tenth Amendment says the federal government can only do things expressly listed in the Constitution -- every other federal activity is illegal." Are you wondering what federal activity he is angry about? Financial support for daycare.

So yeah, while it wasn't a total and complete loss it is obvious that the noise far exceeds the signal. It is maybe a bit of a shock just how much blatant climate change denialism, racism, and vaccine conspiracies are front page material. I'm saddened that there are people who are reading this every day and taking it to heart. The level of outright racism is quite shocking too. It's not even up for debate that black people are just plain inferior to the glorious aryan race on Twitter. This is supposedly the #1 news source on the Internet? Ouch.

Edit: Got the year wrong at the top of the post, fixed.

The best use of generative AI is as an excuse for everyone to stop posting pictures of themselves (or of their children, or of anyone else) online. If you don't overshare (and don't get overshared), you can't get Grok'd.
The number of people saying that it is not worthy of intervention that every single woman who posts on twitter has to worry about somebody saying "hey grok, take her clothes off" and then be made into a public sex object is maybe the most acute example of rape culture that I've seen in decades.
This thread is genuinely enraging. The people making false appeals to higher principles (eg section 230) in order to absolve X of any guilt are completely insane if you take the situation at face value. Here we have a new tool that allows you to make porn of users, including minors, in an instant. None of the other new AI platforms seem to be having this problem. And yet, there are still people here making excuses.
This weekend has made me explicitly decided my kids photos will never be allowed on the internet especially social media. Its was just absolutely disgusting.
eh, it's the social media tax. don't like it? don't use social media. problem solved.
Assholes all the way down.

"“We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary,” X Safety said. “Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.”

How about not enabling generating such content, at all?

Any lawyers around? I would assume (IANAL) that Section 230 does not apply to content created by an agent owned by the platform, as opposed to user-uploaded content. Also it seems like their failure to create safeguards opens up the possibility of liability.

And of course all of this is narrowly focused on CSAM (not that it should be minimized) and not on the fact that every person on X, the everything app, has been opened up to the possibility of non-consensual sexual material being generated of them by Grok.

Jokes on xAI. Europe doesn't have a Section 230 and the responsibility fall squarely on the platform and its owners. In Europe, AI generated or photoshopped CSAM is treated the same as actual abuse-backed CSAM if the depiction is realistic. Possession and distribution are both serious crimes.

The person(s) ultimately in charge of removing (or preventing the implementation of) Grok guardrails might find themselves being criminally indicted in multiple European countries once investigations have concluded.

Seems odd that they “fix” grok to say only positive things about its owner but then can’t be bothered to control such a topic.
Shocked that the same people that were using Lolicon as their avatars on Twitter won't do anything about the CSAM on X.
At what point will payment processors step in and stop processing blue check mark subscriptions?
Ok I understood when stuff related to dodge was consistently flagged for being political and not relevant to hacking but... This is surely relevant to the audience here, no?
Truly insane as a legal position.

I assume the courts will uphold this anyway because Musk rich and cannot be held accountable for his actions.

Twitter should be liable no? The user didn't generate it, Grok did. No Section 230 protection
What ever happened to all that talk about Section 230 protections for platforms? It used to get a ton of discussion in the past, did something change?
seems like blaming the users is the appropriate thing to do. just like blaming users for how they misuse guns and or photoshop.
Great, can we finally get X blocked in the EU then? Far too many people are still hooked to toxic content on that platform, and it is owned by an anti-EU, right-extreme, nazi-salute guy, who would love nothing more than seeing the EU fail.
> That’s like blaming a pen for writing something bad,” DogeDesigner opined.

So from technical wonder to just like a pen in one easy step. Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell the AI what not to output?

Could there be a criminal investigation? CSAM is a serious issue.
> That’s like blaming a pen for writing something bad,” DogeDesigner opined.

Genuinely terrifying how Elon has a cadre of unpaid yes-men ready to justify his every action. DogeDesigner regularly sub tweets Elon agreeing to his latest dumb take of the day, and even seems to have based his entire identity on Elon's doge obsession.

I can't imagine how terrible that self imposed delusion feels deep down for either of them.

Its a feature, not a bug. It fits perfectly for the type of users that still use twitter.
I have a very hard time understanding the business case for xAI/Grok. It is supposedly worth $200 billion (at least by Silicon Valley math), putting it in the company of OpenAI and Anthropic, but like...Who is using it? What is it good for? Is it making a single dollar in revenue? Or is the whole thing just "omg Elon!!" hype similar to most of his other endeavors?
Why does anyone NEED grok to generate images on X?

Seems like a toy feature.

Twitter has turned into 4chan with paid accounts.
Then, there's "VC twitter". . . .
Maybe users are responsible for the prompts but X is definitely responsible for hosting that content and the behavior of Grok.
I don't buy the "I only provide the tool" cop out. Musk does control what Grok spews out and just chooses not to act in this case.

When Grok stated that Israel was committing genocide, it was temporarily suspended and fixed[0]. If you censor some things but not others, enabling the others becomes your choice. There is no eating the cookie and having it too - you either take a "common carrier" stance or censor, but also take responsibility for what you don't censor.

[0] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250813-chatbot-grok-...

I can see this becoming a culture war thing like vaccines. Conservatives will become pro-CSAM because it triggers the overly sensitive crybaby Liberals.
It's the perfect honeypot.
Seems like a new application of 2nd amendment logic (both for and against).
The line you walk past is the one you accept, x accepts CSAM
The irony. Musk fumes about pedo leftist weirdos. And then his own ai bot creates CSAM. The right are full of hypocrites and weirdos compensating so so very hard.
I can’t create a Sora video that depicts Elon Musk. But X can’t figure out how to auto-filter CSAM?
Why was this flagged, after so many contributions and so much interest?
So let me get this straight. When people use these tools to steal artist’ styles directly to generate fake Ghibli art, then it’s «just a tool, bro».

But when it’s used to create CSAM, then it’s suddenly not just a tool.

You _cannot_ stop these tools from generating this kind of stuff. Prompt guards only get you so far. Self-hosted versions don’t have them. The human writing the prompt is at fault. Just like it’s not Adobe’s responsibility if some sick idiot puts bikinis on a child in Photoshop.

And yet people will remain in that cesspool, hell be damned. Network effects are indeed a powerful force.
"Stop asking the guy we hired to draw CSAM, we're not going to tell him to stop."
Xchan
Elon Musk attends the Donald Trump school of responsibility. Take no blame. Admit no fault. Blame everyone else. Unless it was a good thing, then take all credit and give none away.
lol. Always fun to watch HN remove hightly relevant topics from the top of the front page. To their credit they usually give us about an hour to discuss before doing so. How kind of them.
If "cesspool" was a social media it would look like 2026 twitter.