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Posted by choult 1 day ago

Mom says son asked Grok AI bot about soccer; told him to send nudes(www.cbc.ca)
57 points | 60 comments
canucker2016 1 day ago|
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 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago|||
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 1 day ago||
Wait, what happened to the furry?
sprice 1 day ago||
> CBC News did not independently verify the conversation Nasser says she witnessed in her car.
causal 1 day ago||
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."

2OEH8eoCRo0 1 day ago||
Disgusting behavior
mrweasel 1 day ago|||
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.
tantalor 1 day ago|||
Does grok save chat history?
fzeroracer 1 day ago|||
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 1 day ago||
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 22 hours ago||
those who most need to learn it won’t learn it.
Drunkfoowl 1 day ago||
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pjc50 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago|
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.

mothballed 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago|
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.
cowlby 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago||
If this is real, what sort of maladjusted weirdo wants that for a chatbot?
dylan604 1 day ago||
apparently, cowlby does from a couple of comments upstream
SketchySeaBeast 1 day ago||
I guess I probably shouldn't kink shame, but I really don't get it.
isoprophlex 1 day ago||
> [...] 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

ausbah 1 day ago||
@grok is this true?
rsynnott 1 day ago||
"My car asked my kid for nudes" sounds like something out of the Brass Eye "Paedogeddon" special, quite frankly.
gilleain 1 day ago||
"Hello, yes this is the government robot ..."
marky1991 1 day ago||
""I would think that there would be a warning or something that would pop up that would say, you know, 'Are you 13-plus?'""

Is that not what kids mode is for?

sd9 1 day ago||
I'm an adult. I don't want the model to ask me to send it nudes when I'm asking it about soccer.
stevenwoo 1 day ago|||
According to women I know, they get inappropriate nudes and requested of them infrequently but it’s not a total absence either. It’s been a meme, too. As this thing mimics human text its going to happen without intervention.
marky1991 1 day ago|||
I mean, yeah, it's not great even for a regular non-child-mode. But then that has nothing to do with anyone's age, it's just 'send me nudes' isn't a good continuation of the conversation.
SketchySeaBeast 1 day ago||
> According to xAI policy, Grok is "not directed" to children under 13 while teens between 13 and 17 must have their parent or legal guardian's permission to use it, and they must agree to the company's terms of service.

You know, I'm pretty sure it's not cool to ask for nudes from a 13 year old even if their parents say it's OK.

marky1991 1 day ago|||
Are you saying that all products must be safe for children?

It's not cool to chop off a 13-year-old's arm, but a chainsaw will do that all the same.

SketchySeaBeast 1 day ago||
I am not saying that, but a chainsaw will not do that unsolicited. If xAI is saying it's cool to let 13 year olds use the service with parental permission (note: not supervision, permission), then they have a responsibility to behave appropriately with those 13 year olds.
marky1991 1 day ago||
But there's literally a child-safe mode, which was not activated. (I don't know the details of this mode, I know nothing other than what was told to me in the article, so it's possible that kids mode is worthless. But obviously activating that is step 1)

This seems equivalent to me to taking the training wheels off a bike and then complaining when your child gets hurt.

SketchySeaBeast 1 day ago|||
I hope that, no matter what configuration you put the bike in, it doesn't sexually harass the rider.

Important to note as well that kid mode didn't exist when this happened.

Mr_Bees69 1 day ago|||
Calling it kids mode implies it's for ~5-9, if someone was making a 12 year old use yt kids, id think they suck as a parrent.
rsynnott 1 day ago|||
I mean, call me old-fashioned, but I’d generally expect that magic talking cars would not ask _anybody_ for their nudes. That seems a reasonable default assumption.
SketchySeaBeast 1 day ago||
This is the exact same reason KITT got cancelled.
AlexandrB 1 day ago|
So Grok is automatically installed in Teslas now? Can it be disabled? What an anti-feature.
mossTechnician 1 day ago|
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-...

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