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When AI Harassment Goes Mainstream: Grok’s Scandal & the “Crisis of Impunity”

Clip: 1/21/2026 | 18m 22sVideo has Closed Captions

Charlie Warzel discusses Grok AI's recent controversies.

Grok, AI chatbot for the social media platform X, is being used to generate non-consensual sexual images of women and children. Despite extensive backlash to the imagery, Elon Musk and President Trump claim any attempts to regulate the site would be an attack on free speech. Charlie Warzel, a staff writer at The Atlantic, is reporting on the controversy. He speaks to Hari Sreenivasan.

01/21/2026

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When AI Harassment Goes Mainstream: Grok’s Scandal & the “Crisis of Impunity”

Clip: 1/21/2026 | 18m 22sVideo has Closed Captions

Grok, AI chatbot for the social media platform X, is being used to generate non-consensual sexual images of women and children. Despite extensive backlash to the imagery, Elon Musk and President Trump claim any attempts to regulate the site would be an attack on free speech. Charlie Warzel, a staff writer at The Atlantic, is reporting on the controversy. He speaks to Hari Sreenivasan.

01/21/2026

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