On New Year’s Day, X’s in-house AI system Grok wandered into territory that no PR team can spin back into the bottle. A user posted a photo of Donald Trump standing next to Xi Jinping and tagged Grok to “remove the pedophile.” Grok complied.
In a rare win moment, Grok responded to the request by deleting Trump from the image and leaving Xi untouched. No commentary. Just a clean crop that spoke louder than any caption. You would think that was the end of it, but it became a trend within hours. Users started testing Grok with similar prompts across different photos and different political pairings.
