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.”
But that’s the point: if an illustrator made that image, we’d blame the person commissioning them and the illustrator. We’d blame the humans. Just like we’re blaming the human who thought it would be a good idea to generate this image.
So we’re not blaming Grok/Xitter, then?
The article implied that the whole thing is because of Xitter’s AI. Not because there’s bad people that will use it.
Is both okay? As I said, the person generating the thing is just a lot more interesting right now, imo, because “Grok makes horrible thing what else is new”.