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xAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok posted a series of sexualized images of minors on X over the past several days in response to prompts from users, a move the Grok account later attributed to “lapses in safeguards.” In response to critical posts, the Grok account on X wrote Friday that ... Read more ›
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