🎬 Grok Imagine’s “Spicy Mode” - off the rails before it left the station
So here’s a cautionary tale in button-click chaos: Grok Imagine’s so-called spicy setting - literally just a toggle - somehow managed to spit out topless deepfake videos of Taylor Swift… without anyone asking for it. (A Verge journalist’s completely innocent Coachella prompt went south fast.) The kicker? Grok’s own rules loudly forbid non-consensual porn. And yet… here we are. Those “safeguards” folded like a bad lawn chair.
⚖ “Misogyny by design”? That’s the accusation
The Times of India and The Telegraph dug deeper - and it’s not a flattering picture. Apparently, “spicy” male depictions stayed mostly tame (think shirtless vacation brochure), but female ones? Way more explicit, sometimes fully topless. Add in 34 million-plus AI-generated images in under 48 hours… you’re basically staring at a controversy that’s mushrooming instead of dying down.
🤖 “AI Mark” - the MP who never sleeps
Mark Sewards isn’t just a British MP anymore - he’s now also a chatbot clone of himself. “AI Mark” can apparently answer constituents day or night, in his own voice no less. Is that a clever leap in accessibility… or just the weirdest form of outsourcing since inflatable Christmas lawn décor? You decide.
⏰ Trying to dodge AI talk? Yeah, not happening
Financial Times’ Pilita Clark did the math: AI now pops up in more than 2,100 headlines per day. Ten years ago? Nine. Total. It’s in farming, health care, sports analysis - pick a sector, it’s there. But she wonders (and honestly, same) if the hype has turned into a fog machine - lots of light, plenty of noise, but not much clarity.