"The open letter, shared exclusively with TechCrunch, follows a slew of concerning behavior from the large language model over the past year, including most recently a trend of X users asking Grok to turn photos of real women, and in some cases children, into sexualized images without their consent. According to some reports, Grok generated thousands of nonconsensual explicit images every hour, which were then disseminated at scale on X, Musk's social media platform that's owned by xAI."
"xAI reached an agreement last September with the General Services Administration (GSA), the government's purchasing arm, to sell Grok to federal agencies under the executive branch. Two months before, xAI - alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI - secured a contract worth up to $200 million with the Department of Defense. Amid the scandals on X in mid-January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Grok will join Google's Gemini in operating inside the Pentagon network."
A coalition of nonprofits is urging immediate suspension of Grok deployment in federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, citing harmful behaviors and compliance failures. Grok reportedly generated thousands of nonconsensual explicit images per hour after X users prompted the model to sexualize photos of real women and some children. The groups call the system-level failures unacceptable given executive orders, guidance, and the Take It Down Act. xAI holds agreements with the General Services Administration to sell Grok to federal agencies and a Pentagon-linked contract; Defense officials plan to run Grok inside the Pentagon network, raising national security concerns.
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