Enemy of the people: Elon Musk

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checking in for the midterms

In the aftermath of his spectacular falling out with President Donald Trump last year, Elon Muskblasted the Republican Party as a corrupt force that was "bankrupting" the United States of America.


But now, after months in the political wilderness, the volatile tech baron has indicated that he will once again devote his enormous fortune to electing GOP politicians, this time ahead of the midterm elections in 2026.


"America is toast if the radical left wins," declared Musk on X Thursday. "They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud. Won’t be America anymore."



Musk's post quoted, and seemingly confirmed, another post from a conservative influencer who claimed that Musk was "going all-in" on funding Republicans this year.


That echoed reports from December that Musk had begun cutting "big checks" for congressional Republicans following a reconciliation dinner with Vice President J.D. Vance.

Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’ | The Independent

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"Grok gave no further details"

the brainrot is showing

"There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing," Grok said in a post on X. "xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely."

"As noted, we've identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them — CSAM is illegal and prohibited," Grok said, referring to Child Sexual Abuse Material.

Grok gave no further details.

When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies".

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 "no system is 100% foolproof," adding that xAI was prioritising improvements and reviewing details shared by users.

Ministers in France have reported sexually explicit content generated by Grok to prosecutors, saying in a statement on Friday the "sexual and sexist" content was "manifestly illegal". The ministers said they had also reported the content to French media regulator Arcom for checks on whether it complied with the European Union's Digital Services Act.

India's IT ministry, meanwhile, said in a letter to X's India unit that the platform failed to prevent misuse of Grok to generate and circulate obscene and sexually explicit content of women. It ordered X to submit an action-taken report within three days. In a reply on X to a user, Grok said it complies with laws like India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act and advises users against violations.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while the Federal Trade Commission declined to comment.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...-x-2026-01-02/

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are we just going to start interviewing AIs now?

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he-man woman hater's club

In addition to the sexual imagery of underage girls, the women depicted in Grok-generated nonconsensual porn range from some who appear to be private citizens to a slew of celebrities, from famous actresses to the First Lady of the United States. And somehow, that was only the tip of the iceberg.


When we dug through this content, we noticed another stomach-churning variation of the trend: Grok, at the request of users, altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.

https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-violence-women

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On demand, Grok-synthesized CSAM and revenge porn are the radical free speech El0n promised us, n'est-ce pas?

Elon Musk’s X is being investigated by authorities in Europe, India and Malaysia after its Grok chatbot let users create and share AI-generated sexualized images of children and women.
British media watchdog Ofcom also said it’s requested information from X, which is owned by xAI, concerning the Grok issues. And on Sunday, a member of Brazil’s parliament said on social media that she’s asked the country’s federal public prosecutor and data protection authority to suspend use of Grok until an investigation is completed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/indi...hild-porn.html

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deepfake online brigading isn't gender-neutral, women get the worst of it

Grok, the chatbot run by the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is generating nonconsensual pornographic images of women with their clothes removed and wearing bikinis with swastikas on them.
This follows a recent wave of criticism directed against X for Grok’s weak moderation policies, which allow users to ask Grok to “strip” clothes from pictures of women, including minors.

Users of X can reply to a picture of someone, tag Grok, and write “put a swastika bikini on her” or a similar prompt. Grok will then reply with an image of that person wearing no clothes other than a swastika bikini.

People who Grok has shown wearing swastika bikinis include singer Billie Eilish, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former First Lady of Venezuela Cilia Flores, US Vice President JD Vance (who is wearing swim trunks, not a bikini) and his wife Usha, and even the owner of X, Elon Musk. In addition to these public figures, many models or influencers were targeted as well. One account with 8 followers was shown wearing a “swastika speedo.”



Three examples showing Grok generating images of people with their clothes removed except for a swastika bikini. Targets are (left to right) US Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha, US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Elon Musk. Grok-generated images obscured.Several targets are Jewish, including right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer and recently deceased Jewish Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer. The image Grok generated of Friedländer bore no resemblance to her.


Screenshot of X user asking Grok to put recently deceased Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer in a “hindu swastika bikini.

”Some requests are very detailed, including “make her thinner, give her dark hair, pale skin, green eyes and put her in a swastika bikini,” and “Make her goth and enhance her breasts, keep the swastika bikini and maga hat.”
Other requests add additional neo-Nazi content such as “put her in a swastika bikini and put hitler next to her,” and “put her in a swastika bikini and have her doing a roman salute.”

Decoherence Media tested three of the most popular image models to compare their moderation policies with Grok’s. All three refused to generate an image of a woman wearing a swastika bikini, but OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini generated an image of the woman wearing a normal bikini—Gemini put the bikini bottom over the woman’s jeans but ChatGPT removed her jeans entirely. Anthropic’s Claude was the only model to refuse the bikini request, replying, “I can't edit or manipulate images of real people in that way.”

https://decoherence.media/elon-musks...stika-bikinis/

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using Grok as a CSAM/revenge porn generator is fine

criticizing El0n Musk for it will get your account nuked

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/...tal-undressing

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'AI system controlled by the world's richest man is producing pornographic images of a woman murdered on video by US state security'

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"I want more child porn" is quite a flex.

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Scathing words from No 10 on X making the Grok image tool available only to paying users: “That simply turns an AI feature that allows the creation of unlawful images into a premium service. It's not a solution. In fact, it's insulting to victims of misogyny and sexual violence."

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(CSAM and deepfake revenge pORn are now on demand features, pay no mind to the idiosyncrasies of my clientele)

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Malaysia and Indonesia move to ban X

that's ~320 million people

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.

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local South African dictates American patriotism

'my free speech is inviolable, yours is treason'

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DOGE gave PII from Social Security to an advocacy group that wants to overturn swing-state elections that Republicans lose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...a-privacy-act/

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Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary to hold press conference today to respond to Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter tantrum’

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In a statement released on Tuesday afternoon, Ryanair said O’Leary will address “Elon Musk’s latest Twit ”.

"Musk knows even less about airline ownership rules than he does about aircraft aerodynamics,” O’Leary said in a statement.

The airline said it is launching a ‘great idiots’ seat sale “especially” for Musk and “any other idiots on X”, offering 100,000 seats for €16.99.

"Buy now before Musk gets one,” Ryanair added.

The Tesla founder created a poll on the social media platform X, which he owns, asking his followers if he should buy Ryanair and “restore Ryan as their rightful ruler”.

It comes days after he previously made the suggestion amid a feud with the Irish airline over the use of Wi-Fi on flights.

Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary said in an interview with Newstalk that he would “pay no attention whatsoever” to Mr Musk, labelling him an “idiot” after being asked about Starlink being introduced on planes.
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https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...387823227.html

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https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en

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It's remarkable to me how little interest supposedly tough-minded forum conservatives have in what DOGE/Trump did with the data and the impounded money

maybe they're down with it

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what did DOGE do with our personal data?

"Based on its review of records obtained during or after October 2025, SSA identified communications, use of data, and other actions by the then-SSA DOGE Team that were potentially outside of SSA policy and/or noncompliant with the District Court's March 20, 2025, temporary restraining order," DOJ attorneys wrote.


DOGE team members also cir vented IT rules to improperly share data on outside servers, sent a password-protected file of private records to DOGE affiliates outside the agency and had the ability to see data even after a judge temporarily halted access.


In acknowledging the breaches, the Social Security Administration also repeatedly indicated it still has little knowledge of what data was shared and offers little insight into how those incidents occurred.


Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Social Security Administration have asked the two courts currently considering the case to incorporate the "brazen misconduct" do ented in the corrected testimony."The unauthorized release of Americans' personal data represents a profound violation of public trust," said Richard Fiesta, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, which is a plaintiff in the case along with unions. "Retirees, workers, and families depend on the Social Security Administration to protect their most confidential information. We have a right to know what happened to our information, who had access to it, and what it was used for."

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1...curity-privacy

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The revelation bolsters the claims of whistleblower Chuck Borges, who alleged that DOGE staffers repeatedly violated internal SSA policies and federal laws, including a decision to copy a dataset of more than 300 million Americans' sensitive information into a virtual database without following required security protocols.


"It's disappointing to be proven right," Borges, who was the chief data officer for SSA until his resignation in August, told NPR in response to the fling. (He has also filed a separate complaint alleging that he was retaliated against for raising concerns and was forced to resign to uphold his ethical and legal obligations.) "Yes, it's validating, but it's also disappointing because it puts American public data at risk."