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Commentary: The human cost of unregulated AI tools

On Dec. 24, Elon Musk, CEO of xAI, encouraged people to try the Grok chatbot’s new image editing feature. Users quickly began using this tool to sexualize images, mostly of women and in some cases ...
A worrying trend— In the past few weeks, many tech leaders have made bold predictions about what AI will achieve in 2026, from mastering the field of biology to surpassing human intelligence outright.
BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 24: In this photo illustration, the logo of Grok is displayed on a smartphone screen with the xAI logo in the background on August 24, 2025 in Beijing, China. Elon Musk's xAI ...
Grok 4.2 has no memory, so each prompt needs full context; use reasoning traces and source priority for clearer results.
BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 24: In this photo illustration, the logo of Grok is displayed on a smartphone screen with the xAI logo in the background on August 24, 2025 in Beijing, China. Elon Musk's xAI ...
"Start — whole peeled carrot, straight shaft, narrow end for insertion." The post US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as ...
If you're not already aware, Grok AI is a free AI assistant that users can interact with on X (formerly Twitter). You tag it in a post, reply, or update, and Grok will respond accordingly. The ...
In what appeared to be a bid to soak up some of Google's limelight prior to the launch of its new Gemini 3 flagship AI model — now recorded as the most powerful LLM in the world by multiple ...
For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the US.
The Grok logo on a smartphone. The Grok logo on a smartphone. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto --Getty Images Correspondent Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. We're ...