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Hey, welcome to tech stuff.

Oz is out this week, so instead of a week in tech episode,

I wanted to bring in an expert to talk about the absolute hellscape unfolding on Elon Musk's social platform, X.

Heads up, we're going to be covering a sensitive topic,

so if there are children with you, you might want to listen to this at another time. Since late December, Elon Musk's AI model GROC, which is built into X, has been

generating non-consensual sexual imagery when prompted. Now, you may be thinking, I've heard of this

happening before, and you'd be right. Congress even passed a law to curb the creation and distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes.

So why is it still happening?

404 media Samantha Cole has been following the adult industry and online culture of sex for years.

She recently wrote an article titled,

GROC's AI sexual abuse didn't come out of nowhere. And while it's disturbing, we are thrilled to have her here on the podcast. So welcome, Sam. Thank you so much for joining us. Thrilled to be here to disturb. It is the thrilled disturbance that we are living in. Sam, can you talk a little bit about the early days of the Grock scandal?

Like, how did this start?

Grock has been doing this for a while, like you said. The prompts that are like, make her blank,

make her wear a skinny bikini, make her wear a see-through shirt, make her bend over and do such

and such. It's been a thing for a while.

And I think the escalation in the last couple weeks has been, I mean, it went very viral and it became very popular with a lot more users on the platform.

And it's started generating what other outlets have reported is actual child sexual abuse material

that's AI generated, which is non-consensual intimate imagery, and now there are reports of it

creating images of children using AI.

So not real kids that we know of, but still illegal in a lot of places and obviously still

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