Lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this week as xAI says it is working to improve systems
Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts.
Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok’s public media tab filled with such images. xAI said it was working to improve its systems to prevent future incidents.
Yeah. Like the comment you’re replying to says, right now the approach is to tag or summarize the content to a few keywords, and if any banned keywords match, kill the content. Or, put it to some other kind of generic AI model, and ask it “is this [banned content]?” and if it says yes, kill the content.
But we all know how accurate AI models are.
Someone’s going to find a way to recontextualize, encode, or otherwise inject these banned keywords into prompts, just as they have before.