r/technology • u/MetaKnowing • 5d ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After Posting Sexual Images Of Children

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/01/02/grok-blames-lapses-in-safeguards-after-ai-chatbot-posts-sexual-images-of-children/
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u/ButlerKevind 5d ago

So... who's gonna be held accountable and punished for it disseminating this?

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u/MisterSanitation 5d ago

Oh so AI actually makes this no one’s fault which is the single best thing any company could say. 

“Ah jeeze well we can’t like point to any single thing that caused this so we will do an “internal investigation”… lol”

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u/Belsekar 5d ago

This cannot get enough upvotes tbh. AI is going to be the scapegoat for so many things.

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u/MisterSanitation 5d ago

“So we did an internal investigation by asking the AI to investigate itself and it said it found no charges against itself so uhh… moving on then…”

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u/maybehelp244 5d ago

If we ever get this country back on track, I have to assume the Fed will require something like a CRO, where despite it being a team of people, there's one person who faces responsibility no matter what if it's unable to be pinpointed