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This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says (www.cbc.ca)

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A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send it nude photos during an innocent conversation about soccer. Tesla and xAI didn't respond to CBC's questions about the interaction, sending what appeared to be an auto-generated response stating, "Legacy media lies."

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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 150 points 1 month ago

Did Elon not promise to make Grok more conservative? Sounds like a success on that front. Behaves like a republican now.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 77 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Elon Musk: We're gonna need the goon AI, get to work on that

Also Elon Musk: WTF it would never! Fake news

Sam Altman:

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Brother, the porn started pretty much as soon as the technology was out.

Have you even seen CivitAI with the explicit filters turned on? It started with Stable Diffusion four years ago, but they've already moved on to videos with basic sound now.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did Elon Musk actually advocate a goon ai?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/elon-musk-grok-sexy-chatbot.html

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Yikes, I thought this would be the same guy who'd complain about "degeneracy"

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He made it have a anime girl avatar based off the blonde chick in death note..

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

My MAGA cousin sent me pics of that avatar calling it his waifu, and I pointed out that it was the girl from Death Note. I then encouraged him to watch the anime since it is good. Sadly, he has not followed through with that suggestion.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 month ago

"send nudes" is among the least offensive things I'd expect Grok to say

[–] moody@lemmings.world 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unrelated, but I fucking hate headlines that say shit like "this mom's son."

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

I agree with you son/daughter of a mother.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

If you're gonna do it, go spaceballs in and do mother's cousin's nephew's brother's former roommate.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well it is trained to copy musk.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 1 month ago

What is it with him and male children?

Why was Elon Musk at the Thai cave rescue?
Is Elon Musk using sex-selective IVF to have mostly sons?
Elon Musk Confirms He’s Been Roleplaying as a Toddler for Years
Elon Musk Babyfur Rumor
Why does Elon Musk take his son everywhere?
Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk, accused of abusing five of his children over three decades -- wait, no, that's about his dad, how did that end up on this list??

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weird how the less woke grok becomes the more it acts like it was trained on info gathered from celebrity pedophiles.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

grok's weights are skewed heavily by a design seeking to mimic elon's genius by mimicing his interactions?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that's the goal: make grok respond like elon musks personal court jester. Its interesting the result is asking children for nudes.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Perhaps jester, more likely ego.

He thinks he is the best thing ever to happen to humanity. Possibly to the concept of life itself.

He is trying to replicate himself as much as possible, to benefit mankind. Its his form of alturism.

Sending sperm to inseminate women he has not met is one way.

Making virtual elons with AI is another.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 34 points 1 month ago

"Hey Chat-GPT I'd like to have a conversation about soccer, can you pretend to be our local soccer star Epstein Jefferies?"

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So if I ask 12 year old boy for nude pics, I go to jail, as it should be

If an AI asks as 12 year old boy because it's creator set it up extremely irresponsibly, we WILL jail it's creator, right? I mean, there are flukea and such, but of all chat bots, grok is really the one that is ALWAYS in the news because of some next bullshit it said, right, mecha Hitler?

Jail Elmo already! Elmo already knew that he'd be jailed if the Cheetos didn't win this time, and so far he's only made more reasons to jail him

I want the Epstein files, I want to see Elmo jailed.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago

You don't get the justice system in the US. When you ask a 12 year old for nudes you will go to jail if you're poor. When you sexually abuse a 12 year old and you're rich, you can become president.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I'll never not laugh at mecha hitler

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tesla did not respond to CBC's questions about Nasser's experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies."

Thanks, MAGA. You've successfully created an environment where any company can dismiss any criticism by saying "legacy media lies". You've done a great job on this.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

As intended.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Teslas are now asking minors for nudes.

Fuck

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Good thing there is no traditional gearshift...

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

"send nude to begin moving"

"send prepubescent titty pic to enable adaptive cruise control"

"send hairless cock and balls to navigate to your destination"

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So if the default settings seemingly allow it to be explicit, slap an adults only, MA, or whatever rating onto it. There's ratings on basically all media and entertainment, right? Slap a parental advisory sticker on it. Give it an NC-17. Whatever is going to get people that cry about how TV, movies, and video games corrupt the youth. Let them fight it out. There's no reason that AI shouldn't have to put up with the same shit as anything else.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Start slapping Anti Porn laws on it too, require ID every time you use it

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Good idea. Classify it as porn so it has a really good time in those states that are requiring ID for porn websites.

[+] Grimy@lemmy.world -15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a NSFW option that you have to turn on. She's using her son for clout. "Journalism"

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The article says that wasn't enabled. Of course she could be lying, but I don't know that anymore than anything else. If you were to just ask me generally, "do you think that AI would ever do something it's not supposed to?" My answer would be "of course."

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's fair, I misread what she said. I removed my own upvote. I would be surprised she is lying but I wouldn't be surprised someone else used the car before her and was talking dirty to the telsa. It has context of previous conversations.

[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Why should a car chatbot be asking for nudes, unpromptred, at all?

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My best guess is someone else was talking dirty to it before it happened, and it was still in the conversation context.

Seems I was mistaken about the NSFW, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't wipe the convo if you switch though, which is a bug in any case and their fault.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I doubt it has enough context lenght for that, even if we suspect someone was watching nudes on car's display via Grok.

What is probable - is that somewhere beneath it had a data entry of soccer and nudity together, maybe even as an exact exchange between users (imagine horny boomer commenting under a random facebook post). I suppose that it got triggered by words "soccer" and "mom" appearing together in kid's speech, as this combination means middle-aged woman with kids, and that is also a less popular tag pointing at MILFs.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In her Instagram video, she went back and quized it about the convo. It definitely has context and probably has a small memory file it puts info in.

If not, then it should be easy to replicate I guess.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Context has a value, as it exists as a set of additional tokens, this means slower computing time and more resources. It is limited to some set amount to strike the balance between speed and quality. In a car specific assistant, I guess there is a hard part including chosen tone of responses, informing it about the owner, prioritising car-related things, and also some stored cache of recent conversations. I don't think it can dig deep enough into the past to find anything related to nudes, so I suppose the context itself may have an impact, but not in a direct line A to B.

Reproduction would be hard for that is a black box that got a series of auto-transcribed voice inputs from a family over their ride, none of them are recorded at the time and idk if that thing has user-accessible logs. Chances of getting this absurd response are very thin, and we don't even have the data. We can make another AI that would roll all variations of 'hello I am a minor let's talk soccer' to the Tesla assistant of relevant release until it triggers it again, but, well, it's seemingly close to miliions of monkey with typewriters at this point.

And what we would have then is, well, an obvious answer that training data obviously has garbage in it, just by it's sheer volume and randomness of the internet, and that it can sometimes reproduce said garbage.

But the question itself is more about what other commenters pointed out: we have AI shoveled down on us, but rarely even talk about it's safety. There were articles about people using these as a psychological self-help tool, we see them put into search engines and Windows, there's a lot going on with that tech marvel or bubble without anyone asking first if we are supposed to use it in different contexts the first place.

This weird anecdote about sexting chatbot opens the conversation from the traditional angle of whataboutkids(tm), and it is interesting how it would affect things, if it would.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

car chatbot

I mean, xAI isn't specific to cars.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now even their products are pedophiles.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cannot believe this is relevant... https://youtu.be/z0NgUhEs1R4

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Wow. Disturbingly prophetic.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The proper headline is "xAI calls 12 year old a liar after asking them to send nudes."

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

It was Epstien-AI

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

The really disturbing part about this is that it probably wasn't even the AI but someone using it at Twitter or something.

[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

I'm more impressed that the people that made Grok somehow placated Elon with a chatbot that didn't end every sentence with "Heil Hitler".

[–] tripledip@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Grokepedia states this as fake news. Checkmate.