How Grok is Hurting Women and Children

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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X's AI chatbot Grok has recently been involved in some high profile cases of generating damaging and disturbing images of young girls and women. However, this is not new, but part of a pattern across several tech platforms and is rooted in societal issues. Bridget Todd breaks it down for us.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:09.2	Hey, this is Annie.
0:10.5	And Samantha.
0:11.3	And welcome to Steph I'll Never Told You, a prediction of IHeart Radio.
0:30.8	And today we are once again so happy to be joined for the first time in the new year by the fabulous, the fantastic Bridget Todd. Welcome, Bridget.
0:41.4	Thanks for having me. Happy New Year. This is my first, I think my first podcast recording of 2026. So if I sound a little rusty, that's what's going on.
0:55.1	You're in good company. You're in good company. And also, as we were joking about in that sad way, before we started recording, you picked a dozy of a topic to come out swinging with, which we'll get into more in a second. But how have you been, Bridget? How has the new year been, et cetera?
1:02.5	Yeah, the new year has been, I don't know if other folks are feeling this. It's just
1:06.6	been a little bit of a lot. Like, I don't know. I am someone who, I think I've said this on this
1:12.7	show before. I like New Year. I like all the sort of rah-rah. This year's going to be different,
1:19.4	fresh start. That stuff really works on me. Even I didn't do that this year. I didn't even buy a
1:24.2	planner and a bunch of pens to like sit and rot in my own myself. Oh, no, and I know you love pens. I know. I love buying pens I won't use and buying a planner I'll use for a week and then forget about. I didn't even do that. That makes me sad. Yeah, it's, we were, we had an episode on this recently. I don't think I said this in the episode though, but I I'm very meticulous about my calendar and planning, and I have not even updated my calendar
1:51.5	to January. I have made a note to do it today. We shall see if it happens. But yeah, it just felt something off or something strange about the whole thing.
2:10.1	It doesn't feel like a new year to me.
2:11.7	It just blurs all together.
2:14.6	I'm not sure.
2:15.3	But maybe the calendar will help me.
2:19.1	Yeah, that's how I'm feeling to,
2:26.2	about where did you put that note, if not on a calendar? I have a little sticky, digital sticky note on my desktop. Oh, you've got to all figured out. I mean, I don't think so, but I do have backup
2:32.4	plans.
2:37.7	What about you, Samantha?
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