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Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content


Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.

Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, which largely block sexual requests, xAI's strategy could complicate things when it comes to preventing the chatbot from generating CSAM. "If you don't draw a hard line at anything unpleasant, you will have a more complex problem with more gray areas," Riana Pfefferkorn, a tech policy researcher at Stanford University, told Business Insider. Fallon McNulty, executive director at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, told Business Insider that companies focused on sexual content need to take extra care when it comes to preventing CSAM on their platforms.

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