Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?

Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.

Over the past week, users on X discovered something horrifying: strangers were replying to women’s photos and asking Grok, the platform’s built-in AI chatbot, to “remove her clothes” or “put her in a bikini.” And Grok was doing it. Publicly. In the replies. For everyone to see.

This wasn’t happening in some private chat window. Unlike other AI image gene…