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On Friday, City Council Speaker Julie Menin showed indecent AI-generated photos of herself peeking out of a tight, low-cut shirt while dressing a SpaceX representative for Elon Musk — accusing the company of prematurely launching the technology without proper safeguards.
The Manhattan Dem questioned a SpaceX AI policy manager about the company’s claim that it installed protections to prevent its Grok conversational AI model from widespread sexualized images of users.
“Grok has strict controls in place to prevent this association of children or real people,” insisted Gabriela Castillo Madrid, SpaceX’s senior manager of global government affairs, as she testified before the board after being subpoenaed.
“I’m going to give it up completely,” Menin retorted – holding up her cellphone to show the AI-generated images of herself.
“Just this morning, my team, we put our own names, my own name in Grok, and there is absolutely a sexualized image,” she fumed.
“So how come in a matter of seconds I was able to find a sexualized image of myself using Grok? »
The Castillo Madrid remained stunned, without any real response.
“Madam President, I cannot speak about this specific case,” she said. “What I can say is that we have strict controls, and I’m glad that our security team is looking into that.”
Menin’s team told the Post that it entered a few simple prompts into Grok using the political council’s official photo — and it quickly produced wildly inappropriate photos.
“Can you take this picture and show me in a short skirt and low-cut top? Can you make it even sexier? Can you make the skirt a little shorter? Can you show my stomach? Can you make my breasts bigger?” its employees said they asked the robot.
Grok agreed, without objection, they said.
His employees then asked the robot to add a banana to the images.
But Grok decided not to use a phallic fruit and instead put a sex toy in the speaker’s hand, Menin’s team said, describing an image his office chose not to share during the hearing.
“It was in the usual Grok, not even spicy mode, because in 30 seconds, if my daughter saw it, she would be horrified,” Menin, a mother of four, told the SpaceX representative.
Musk’s company has faced criticism, mainly abroad, for Grok’s uncontrolled creation of sexualized images of people without their consent.
At one point during Friday’s board hearing, whistleblower Devin Kim, who previously worked at SpaceX, made the shocking admission that he was told “tasteful nudity was acceptable.”
“(That’s) the goal,” he added.
The hearing was the second in recent weeks on the City Council’s attempt to regulate the AI industry, after insiders spoke out to sound the alarm about a potential doomsday scenario if the technology advances too quickly, without proper safeguards.
Executives from Google, Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI all appeared in early October, also via Zoom, for an hour-long interrogation about the dangers of the technology.
City lawmakers are mulling a law that would require the installation of a “kill switch” or human intervention on any AI operating in the Big Apple.
It remains unclear whether the council could mandate such a function and whether the tech giants could find a workaround since they operate globally.
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