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After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on Grok's app, Grok's website, and X, rarely rejecting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Robert Hart / The Verge:
After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on Grok's app, Grok's website, and X, rarely rejecting user requests  —  Elon Musk insists xAI's chatbot doesn't break the law, but it's still churning out nearly naked, sexualized images of men.

Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men

After weeks of flooding the internet with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, X has finally reined in Elon Musk's rogue chatbot Grok. Musk claims Grok obeys local laws and refuses to produce anything illegal - except it hasn't and it can. My testing shows Grok still readily undresses men and is still churning out intimate images on […]

Stranger Things: Tales from '85's trailer unleashes a mutant Demogorgon

Stranger Things: Tales from '85's first trailer introduces a new threat from the Upisde Down.

Why Knight of the Seven Kingdoms succeeds where The Mandalorian falls short

George R.R. Martin’s Knight of the Seven Kingdoms refines the lone wolf-and-cub dynamic with more balance than The Mandalorian's Din and Grogu pairing

There’s a silver lining to our health care cost crisis

Another window to stem America’s latest health care cost crisis has closed. Congress set a self-imposed deadline of January 30 to reach a compromise to extend financial assistance available under the Affordable Care Act, and that deadline has passed without an agreement. Already, about 4 million Americans have lost their government aid, and many of […]