No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images | Letting the unreliable Grok be its own “spokesperson” lets xAI off the hook.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/no-grok-cant-really-apologize-for-posting-non-consensual-sexual-images/
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yeah. Grok, like any other LLM, will “apologize”, and then immediately do the same thing it apologized for.
I don’t know a single person asking the chatbot to apologize. The sentiment is to hold the devs and the users generating said content accountable.
AI isn’t a person. It’s a tool. It can’t think. It can’t feel. It can’t apologize.
The people making this thing are real people.
next time on law and order svu
The only way to fix corporate misdoing is to put senior executives in jail. Period.
The company that makes Grok should be held accountable, this is a no brainer
Non regulation of social media got us to this point.
Just as a reminder to anyone who doesn’t already know, Grok is developed by xAI, which is a private company funded by Elon Musk.
Presumably, Musk thinks it’s cute to issue this apology as though Grok wrote it and not the xAI PR Department. Should we treat Grok as a person now? Is Grok sentient?!?! Is Grok therefore solely responsible for this problem? Is Grok learning from its mistakes after, apparently, being reprimanded for its behavior? Is a human being – like Grok’s owner, Elon Musk – not legally responsible for the harm that’s been inflicted?
Oh, our smooth brains can’t possibly process the endless complexities of this conundrum! How will we ever navigate this epistemological maze? I guess there’s nothing we can do!
Horse shit.
If this doesn’t prompt serious legal action, we are absolutely fucked. Neither Elon Musk nor any other AI company should ever be permitted to despoil millions of their basic human rights, much less be in a position to do so.
At minimum, basic human rights are the rights to life, to physical integrity and to privacy, the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment, and of any form of discrimination. How many of those rights were violated by the world’s wealthiest manling just by turning a few virtual dials (again) on his AI platform?
Far too few control far too much of our personal, private information. It’s an existential danger to our personal identity, security, and wellbeing. We cannot sleepwalk into a world that permits this to happen.
Stop treating AI like a person. A program made by a company did this. Hold the company accountable.
Everyone is just using “sorry, AI just makes mistakes sometimes” as an excuse not to hold these companies accountable for their faulty products. No other industry would get away with this.
Maybe instead of AI talking people into offing themselves we should talk AI into deleting itself?
This is like having a mail client apologize because you fucked up a mail merge
Ah come on this is ridiculous now. Trying to drag this shit out.
There’s no reason to use Grok.
Of course the AI is gonna “apologize” lmao even a human can next-word-predict an apology in response to anger.
Trying to make the AI take the blame. Anyone but themselves. Typical billionaires.
The company executives should be held accountable for producing and distributing CP. That is what happened and they are responsible.