As furore grows over Grok, it becomes ever clearer that the online world has lost its way
Elon Musk, owner of X and staunch supporter of its AI assistant, Grok. Photo: Getty
It happened so slowly, it is hard to pinpoint the exact moment our phones went from being amusing time sinks to addictive psychosis machines.
But, if I had to put my finger on a point of no return, it would be right now, with Grok, X’s AI, flooding our feeds with artificially generated, non-consensual, sexualised images of women and children.