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… Sometimes Grok safeguards did prevent harmful outputs, “refusing to follow” some of the prompts “on the basis that such material violated Grok’s content moderation guardrails.” The lawsuit includes an example of an especially creepy prompt that Grok rejected, using phrases like “white slime” to mas… …
… According to the amended complaint, Stability AI’s open-weight models were trained on CSAM and allegedly “serve as the basis for third-party ‘nudify’ apps,” which Grok users supposedly rely on to further alter explicit Grok outputs. …
… Grok’s corporate usage also saw a smaller bump, rising from 4 percent to 7 percent. “We have launched Grok Business, Grok Enterprise, Grok API, and xAI Gov, products that we believe will be attractive to enterprises and governments, and we expect substantial opportunities to acquire new customers,”… …
… Once Grok opens the link, the data is in the logs of the attacker’s server. Adversa can’t be sure what causes Grok to refuse precisely the same plaintext instructions and follow the encrypted ones. …
… The penalties are so severe, xAI said in its lawsuit that it was finally preparing to update Grok to block harmful outputs after more than six months of backlash and probes pressuring the firm to tighten its safeguards. “Confronted with $500,000-per-image strict liability and no safe harbor, xAI ha… …
… To prevent the Grok misuse, xAI sued the user allegedly responsible for prompting Grok to generate the illegal content, but the question remains whether xAI is liable for the outputs. …
… Unchecked US tools like Grok risk penalties If Walz puts the law on the books, some US firms could be forced to make changes or face penalties. Potentially even Elon Musk’s xAI may risk fines if Minnesotans can prove Grok was used to undress images without consent. …
… The lawsuit “threaten s artificial-intelligence innovation, plus the energy needed to power it,” the US filing said. “The NAACP’s attempt to cut off the power that supports Grok also threatens national security because… Grok provides critical support for the Department of War’s military operations.… …
… This is a marriage between two companies that have arguably been falling behind in the AI race. xAI-turned-SpaceX’s Grok chatbot has been riddled with controversies, but its lack of a competitive coding model or harness has also been a strategic weakness. …
… As Cambridge Analytica sees it, the X platform’s chatbot Grok represents a “failure” that proves that “consent frameworks designed for individual users” following the Facebook scandal “don’t prevent industrial-scale behavioral exploitation.” “Grok shows that the model survived intact—it just moved … …