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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK technology editor

Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in 11 days, study finds

Elon Musk
‘What Elon [Musk] was ginning up was controversy, eyeballs, engagement and users,’ CCDH’s chief executive said. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in less than two weeks, including 23,000 that appear to depict children, according to researchers who said it “became an industrial-scale machine for the production of sexual abuse material”.

The estimate has been made by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) after Elon Musk’s AI image generation tool sparked international outrage when it allowed users to upload photographs of strangers and celebrities, digitally strip them to their underwear or into bikinis, put them in provocative poses and post the images on X.

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