French police raid X’s Paris office as UK investigation continues
French police raid X's Paris office as UK investigation continues A raid on X’s Paris office was carried out by the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit on Tuesday with Europol and French police as part of an ongoing investigation that expanded in July to include Grok. As previously reported by Reuters, Elon Musk and former X […]
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL Across six top large language models, xAI’s Grok performed the worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, according to a study published Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League. On the other end of the spectrum, Anthropic’s Claude performed the best according to the report’s metrics, but […]
X faces EU investigation over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes
X faces EU investigation over Grok's sexualized deepfakes X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its announcement, the Commission says it will evaluate whether X “properly assessed and mitigated risks” associated with Grok’s image-generating capabilities in the EU, as reported earlier by […]
Why nobody’s stopping Grok
Why nobody's stopping Grok Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of generative AI. Grok, the chatbot made by Elon Musk’s xAI, is able to make all manner of […]
Threads overtakes X on mobile, but still lags far behind
Threads overtakes X on mobile, but still lags far behind After launching almost three years ago, Meta’s Threads is now reportedly attracting more daily mobile users than rival platform X. According to Similarweb data shared by TechCrunch, Threads has 141.5 million daily active iOS and Android global app users as of January 7th, compared to […]
X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday
X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco’s ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were having […]
Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week
Musk says he's going to open-source the new X algorithm next week In 2023, what was then still called Twitter, open-sourced at least portions of the code that decided what it served up in your feed. But that GitHub repository is hopelessly out of date, with the vast majority of the files appearing to be […]
X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns
X accuses music publishers of 'weaponizing' DMCA takedowns X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. The Elon Musk-owned platform accuses music publishers of colluding with the NMPA to “coerce […]
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards The tech moguls in happier times (at Trump’s inauguration.) Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that it hasn’t […]
The latest on Grok’s gross AI deepfakes problem
The latest on Grok's gross AI deepfakes problem The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes. As Hayden Field wrote, “screenshots show Grok complying with requests to put real women in lingerie and make them […]