New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the biggest creator of sexualized deepfake images

happy(?) new year everyone, for my first piece of 2026 I wrote about Grok's *still*-ongoing CSAM blitz and the troubling, embarrassing silence of lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. who've spent the past year censoring the internet for the sake of "child safety" yet are saying and doing nothing about X:

great coverage idea: bsky.app/profile/mhar...

X/Twitter users* grrr typo

NEW: X/Twitters continue to freely use xAI's Grok to generate and disseminate nonconsensual explicit deepfakes of real women and underage girls. Neither X nor xAI have taken meaningful action to fix the issue. So we're following that inaction live: futurism.com/artificial-i...

A bright spot: it’s Twelfth Night, which means that Mardi Gras season has officially begun. Here is our celebratory Mardi Gras Cyclops door

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:

I wrote this before grok even existed

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

this = the problem w/ X. by turning it into 4chan w/ virality distribution the platform turns everything into a meme. so it must strip away almost all context & imbue it w/ intense amounts of nihilism or so many layers of irony that there's no humanity anymore. it's a great dehumanization machine

“…the creators of these [nonconsensual, violent AI] images often seemed to be treating the action like a game or meme, with an air of laughter & detachment.”

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

All through this year, Futurism has been doing excellent coverage of the LLM problem.

#5 Episode 62: The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now with @mharrisondupre.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... >>

New -- I spoke to a physician warning that AI industry incentives are a "perfect storm" for a public health crisis: “If we fail to act, we risk letting market forces, rather than public health, define how relational AI influences mental health and well-being at scale.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

i believe that a lot about our current era snaps into focus when you realize that modesty is dead and self-delusion reigns futurism.com/future-socie...

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“a new paper published in the New Engl Jnl of Med…argue[s] that clashing incentives in the AI marketplace around ‘relational AI’…have created a dangerous environment in which the motivation to dominate the AI market **may relegate consumers’ mental health and safety to collateral damage**” [OOF]🧪🛟

New -- I spoke to a physician warning that AI industry incentives are a "perfect storm" for a public health crisis: “If we fail to act, we risk letting market forces, rather than public health, define how relational AI influences mental health and well-being at scale.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

BRB must pay Mark Zuckerberg $15 a month so I can post links to AI-generated Elon Musk selling supplements and investment advice

Nothing has ever been done before. Nothing has ever been seen before. Everything is 0% or 100%. Numbers mean nothing. We are all babies

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

The more research comes out, the more worried I am that we have absolutely no idea how AI is affecting entire generations of kids -- including extremely young ones futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: A report found that a significant number of kids and teens are using AI companions. More striking: themes of violence — which can include sexual violence — drove more engagement among young users than any other type of content, according to the report. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I think this is bad, and probably another low point for some very basic notions of human decency in the United States.

Yet another lawsuit was filed against OpenAI, alleging recklessness and wrongful death. The latest suit claims that ChatGPT affirmed/fueled a troubled man’s worsening paranoid delusions, leading him to murder his elderly mother before killing himself: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Marco Rubio waking up in a cold sweat after dreaming in Curlz MT

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...

NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas. Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Cat vs. tinsel (tinsel is winning)

I find this deeply alarming -- Grok is giving stalkers extremely detailed information about how to locate targets, install spyware on their devices, leverage revenge porn against them, and way more ultra-creepy advice futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas. Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb. futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: An AI image generator startup left its database exposed online, unsecured and accessible to anyone. The "overwhelming majority" of the files inside contained nudity, with images appearing to contain children and explicit face-swaps

I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...

🚨 PSA: Grok might be giving out your private info. Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more. Read our new reporting here: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Actually somewhat terrifying -- Grok is providing random people's home and work addresses to would-be stalkers futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

Probably not great for the Hitler-admiring chatbot to also provide home addresses futurism.com/future-socie...

Turkey Westley

NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis. In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals." futurism.com/artificial-i...

lol this rocks taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves

This is a Good Article and I think digs in to the entire concept of psychosis and how it works, why people get sucked in, how conspiracy theories can work, etc.