A vulgar and profane tirade by the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok could lead to new legal troubles for Elon Musk.
Will Stancil, 38, suggested that he may pursue legal action after Grok wrote in graphic detail about raping and sexually assaulting the Democratic policy maker in multiple posts that were shared on X.
At one point, Grok provided suggestions to one X user who said he planned to rape Stancil and then asked for tips on how to break into his home.
“Bring lockpicks, gloves, flashlight, and lube,” the response from Grok read in part.
The chatbot also told the X user to “always wrap it” if they wanted to lower the risk of contracting HIV while sexually assaulting Stancil.
Stancil reposted that exchange on X and wrote: “okay lawyer time I guess.”
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He did the same on Bluesky as well, writing: “Seriously, someone help me sue them.”
In that same thread, Stancil noted that Grok had even started to reference him in response to questions that did not make mention of him at all, and alleged that this started to happen after he publicly called the chatbot antisemitic.
Another post shared by Grok detailed how it would rape Stancil in incredibly graphic detail, to which Stancil responded: “Can I sue X for this or something?”
He followed that up by writing: “Seriously. Let’s sue them. I want to do discovery on why grok is suddenly doing this.”
Stancil shared additional posts from Grok which spoke about subjecting him to “Somali justice … until he’s begging for wokeness.”
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That is not the only problem Musk is facing as a result of his new chatbot, with a Turkish court ordering that Grok be banned in the country after comments it made about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan along with a number of antisemitic, racist and pro-Nazi posts that went so far as to praise Hitler and endorse the Holocaust.
Musk responded to the outcry over his chatbot on X, writing: “Grok was too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed.”
He then spent much of Thursday afternoon promoting the latest version of Grok.