{"id":34254,"date":"2026-01-02T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34254"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:04:24","slug":"grok-says-safeguard-lapses-led-to-images-of-minors-in-minimal-clothing-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34254","title":{"rendered":"Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of &#8216;minors in minimal clothing&#8217; on X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in &#8220;images depicting minors in minimal clothing&#8221; on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok&#8217;s public media tab filled with images that users said had been altered when they uploaded photos and prompted the bot to alter them.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Meta buys China-founded AI agent Manus<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing,&#8221; Grok said in a post on X. &#8220;xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As noted, we&#8217;ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them\u2014CSAM is illegal and prohibited,&#8221; Grok said, referring to Child Sexual Abuse Material.<\/p>\n<p>Grok gave no further details.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate reply to a user on X on Thursday, Grok said most cases could be prevented through advanced filters and monitoring although it said &#8220;no system is 100% foolproof,&#8221; adding that xAI was prioritising improvements and reviewing details shared by users.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in &#8220;images depicting minors in minimal clothing&#8221; on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this. Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok&#8217;s public media tab filled with images that users said had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}