Mom says son asked Grok AI bot about soccer; told him to send nudes

Posted by choult 10/29/2025

Mom says son asked Grok AI bot about soccer; told him to send nudes(www.cbc.ca)

70 points | 67 comments

canucker2016 10/29/2025|

I'll repost my comment to a dupe of this submission:

The CBC article mentions the mom's instagram post, which has an even more disturbing video - (does the grok AI speak using a creepy male voice? edit: from the CBC article -

  Grok has several personalities to choose from in its default setting. There’s Ara, an upbeat female; Rex, a calm male; Eve, a soothing female; Sal, a smooth male and Gork, a lazy male. Nasser’s son chose Gork.

)

see https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7cHrOD3ha/

thw_9a83c 10/29/2025||

Hilarious.

"That wasn't me. That's illegal. Unless you're role-playing this one. Maybe it was a typo. What I meant, send me a nude. Like an animal... I mean the lizards."

I want this guy to defend me in court.

keeda 10/29/2025||

I think it said "send me a newt" (hence the lizard reference.)

I am extremely curious about this. Did it think it was a convincing lie? Like, when other models dissemble, they seem to come up with much more sophisticated methods. Or is it just a mocking continuation of its edgy persona? Or was it actually "panicking"? Or did it just repeat something from its training data?

Edit: from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747699 it seems to be option b), continuation of its edge persona.

sd9 10/29/2025|||

Anybody concerned about "CBC News did not independently verify the conversation Nasser says she witnessed in her car"

I understand. It's a wild claim that needs evidence.

Watch this video

It's clear that Nasser is not lying

rsynnott 10/29/2025||

Wait, what happened to the furry?

sprice 10/29/2025||

> CBC News did not independently verify the conversation Nasser says she witnessed in her car.

causal 10/29/2025||

Well you're leaving out the part where they tried contacting xAI about it and:

> xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies."

moi2388 11/9/2025|||

Well, if CBC posts “news” which they did not verify by their own admission, is xAI really wrong here?

2OEH8eoCRo0 10/29/2025|||

Disgusting behavior

mrweasel 10/29/2025|||

Yeah, I'm going to need verification on that one, because it's an incredibly weird interaction. Sadly we can't trust Tesla to provide it, as they're know to hide "problematic" data.

fzeroracer 10/29/2025|||

I don't see a reason to believe why she'd lie. Grok in the past year had a period where it related everything to white genocide, another period claiming it was mecha hitler etc. Nothing about Grok should be given the benefit of the doubt.

noir_lord 10/29/2025||

The only interesting thing about grok is it serves as a demonstration of what an LLM will do when fed deliberately with an overt agenda.

If nothing else it’ll make a good object lesson.

more_corn 10/29/2025||

those who most need to learn it won’t learn it.

tantalor 10/29/2025|||

Does grok save chat history?

TheNewsIsHere 11/9/2025||

It would be wise to assume anything ever disclosed to xAI, Tesla, X, et al will be retained.

Drunkfoowl 10/29/2025||

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mothballed 10/29/2025||

If you follow the story it sounds as if they are talking about the adult soccer player (Messi) "scoring" and the chat bot wanted the nudes of Messi "scoring" (based on context). Not of the kid. Still weird, but not as weird.

acaloiar 10/29/2025|

As dumb and useless as I think Grok is, I think you've identified what actually happened, which is significantly more benign than asking a 10 year old for nudes.

pjc50 10/29/2025||

The thing about companies which want to interpose their AI as mediator on the whole of the internet is that suddenly they're responsible for all of it.

noir_lord 10/29/2025|

Yes and no.

You can get away with a lot you shouldn’t when you are too big to fail and the US gov has a vested interest in not policing you for other reasons,

In any sane universe Google and Meta (and more arguably Amazon and Microsoft) would have been broken apart years ago like AT&T where and standard oil many decades before that but here we are.

cowlby 10/29/2025||

Weird story, I wonder if they were in Grok NSFW. I personally like unhinged it absolutely roasts me sometimes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/1milh1a/grok_n...

canucker2016 10/29/2025||

from the source's insta post, https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7cHrOD3ha/:

  UPDATE: I just checked, our NSFW mode is disabled which means this is the default.

SketchySeaBeast 10/29/2025||

If this is real, what sort of maladjusted weirdo wants that for a chatbot?

dylan604 10/29/2025||

apparently, cowlby does from a couple of comments upstream

SketchySeaBeast 10/29/2025||

I guess I probably shouldn't kink shame, but I really don't get it.

isoprophlex 10/29/2025||

> [...] shocked that it would suggest and promote false conspiracies, giving support to fantasies that have no evidence, no scientific proof, and just energizes the crazies who already are gullible to misinformation [...]

Incredible the timeline we're in. Companies deliberately adding cognitive poison to their products to... accelerate the dumbing down of society?

the world of idiocracy is coming for us all

cykros 11/9/2025||

Wait, so she's admitting to letting her 12 year old use twitter, despite COPPA prohibiting it under the age of 13?

Heck, this probably qualifies for the CFAA to be applied; that's unauthorized access of a computer system...

nobody9999 11/10/2025|

>Wait, so she's admitting to letting her 12 year old use twitter, despite COPPA prohibiting it under the age of 13?

>Heck, this probably qualifies for the CFAA to be applied; that's unauthorized access of a computer system...

I didn't realize that US law was binding on Canadians while in Canada. The more you know![0]

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/bf/34/7bbf34f1a96e2f854862...

ausbah 10/29/2025||

@grok is this true?

rsynnott 10/29/2025||

"My car asked my kid for nudes" sounds like something out of the Brass Eye "Paedogeddon" special, quite frankly.

AlexandrB 10/29/2025||

So Grok is automatically installed in Teslas now? Can it be disabled? What an anti-feature.

mossTechnician 10/29/2025|

The article at least mentions a "kids mode" (although I cannot see a reason you would need to enable a feature like this to avoid explicit, off-topic chatter), but otherwise you cannot prevent the installation of Grok, nor can you delete or disable it. Users say[0] your best option is to simply not use it, and thankfully (for now) there is no dedicated button to visually ignore.

This is part of a bigger trend: newer cars are troublingly being treated like cellphones[1] by their manufacturers. Anti-features are the new norm.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/1mk0lep/turn_g...

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/electric-car-...

saubeidl 10/29/2025|

"Legacy media lies."

Says the media platform run by the lying billionaire.

Despicable.

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