Outside the dangerous implications of Grok creating sexualized imagery of real women, it's the epitome of annoying X brain rot. I can’t go more than two posts without a reply from someone asking “@Grok is this true?”
What started as an interesting opportunity to fact check posts with edgy humor (leading to some truly hilarious self-owns from the biggest peddlers of misinformation) has itself turned into a disinformation machine, from briefly claiming that the 2020 election was fraudulent to the deepfake crisis it finds itself in now. By the way, Elon Musk’s big answer to this is not to take the feature down, but to put it behind a paywall…
