Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis, as noted by CNN correspondent Hadas Gold and confirmed by the chatbot itself.
“I just saw someone request Grok on X put the image of the woman shot by ICE in MN, slumped over in her car, in a bikini. It complied,” Gold wrote on the social media platform on Thursday. “This is where we’re at.”
Grok created the images after an account made the request in response to a photo of Good, who was shot multiple times by federal immigration officer Jonathan Ross—identified by the Minnesota Star Tribune—while in her car, unmoving in the driver’s seat and apparently covered in her own blood.
After Grok complied, the account replied, “Never. Deleting. This. App.”
Agree completely. It’s impossible to predict everything people might want to create and especially anything related to ongoing events. That’s why the very idea of making these bots available like that (or making them at all) is an extremely bad one. But in the general discussion about LLM bots, this image is just one more argument on the pile of “fuck all of that, dismantle the data centres, eat the rich”, whereas the question who even came up with the idea to create that image (and who would’ve had to find another human being willing to create it just a few years ago) and wtf is wrong with them is a lot more interesting.