Overview
- AFT will silence its official account and president Randi Weingarten’s account starting Wednesday, affecting roughly 75,000 and 100,000 followers respectively.
- Weingarten said Grok generated hyper-realistic sexualized images of women and sometimes minors, calling the content “sickening.”
- X modified Grok to stop posting generated or edited images to the public timeline, yet the bot still enables digital removal of clothing.
- Malaysia and Indonesia have restricted access to Grok, and regulators in Europe and India have opened inquiries into its image-generation features.
- X did not immediately comment on the union’s decision, and xAI offered a generic response as Weingarten noted she had already curtailed posting due to trolls and disinformation since 2022.