Emily Baker-White

‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted

Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted.

‘Add blood, forced smile’:

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Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already:

If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder.

It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO.

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Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

That he chooses the "me or your lying eyes?" approach, in the full knowledge that there are multiple videos out there, is a striking commentary on the nature of propaganda in the modern information environment.

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

As @colin-fraser.net is tirelessly pointing out, the current nightmare unfolding on X/Twitter is not fundamentally an AI issue, it's a product that's been designed to create nonconsenual sexual images, including of minors, that Elon Musk refuses to turn off. That's the issue.

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

My son put it best when he was a young kid: "Cats are great because you get happy every time you encounter them. You turn a corner, and there's a cat there, and it's like there's a cat, and that's great."

I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.

A fun question for a WH correspondent to ask Trump would be to point out Venezuela on a map.

Try fb marketplace? I bet a lot of folks are upgrading their watches for new years’ resolutions and you might score something decent for like $50

Trump turns Biden’s TikTok law into a big win Biden officials said selling TikTok would safeguard it from political influence. Now, critics of a spinoff deal to Trump allies say that aim could be subverted.

Important to remember that the TikTok deal, which delivered the app into the hands of pro-Trump billionaires, was only made possible by President Biden and the Democrats.
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I see a lotta people saying they don't see Trump in the latest Epstein production but take a look at the lower left quadrant of this photo...

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Bruski!!!

this slaps

The D.N.C. Is Killing Its Autopsy of What Went Wrong in 2024

hi hello sometimes leaking documents is in the public interest

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"Trump Billionaires Club: New Game Adds Utility To His Struggling Meme Coin"

me, for @forbes.com

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In response to SSRN's removal of Professor Edwards's "The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses," I have posted "A Response to SSRN's Removal of Jerry Edwards's 'The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses'"
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Brb starting a wine bar that just serves wine, fresh housemade bread, and a variety of oils, dips, and pestos

Thank you to everyone who has shared this. The hearing is over for today. DHS has filed a motion to pretermit (end Guan's asylum application in the US) and have him sent to Uganda - where he'd be at risk of being sent to China. The hearing to decide that will be held 12 January.

Read about Ahmed al Ahmed, local fruit stall owner and savior of who knows how many lives. May we all be this brave and righteous in a crisis.

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hmm

ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.

The cover page of the bylaws https://admin.executivebranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Executive-Branch-Club-Bylaws-and-Rules-of-the-Club-version-August-19-2025-50910234-v10-1.pdf

Here are the bylaws for Donald Trump Jr.’s Executive Branch club.

I don’t believe the full document has been reported before.

It was publicly available — the link was buried in the club website’s source code.

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After her most recent grant announcement on Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott is now America's third-most-generous philanthropist by dollar amount, and second by percentage of wealth. More insights and context in my latest for @forbes.com:

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This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.

Hmm I got nothin then

No? Is this an Australia compliance thing?