Grok spreads falsehoods as users “unmask” ICE agent involved in deadly shooting

Grok is fueling a misinformation campaign after X users misidentified the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.

Social media has been flooded with posts surrounding the ICE agent who shot a woman in Minneapolis.

The posts not only include eye witness videos of the shooting, but also feature images where X users claim they have uncovered the identity of the agent who killed the woman.

Following the fatal shooting of Renee Good, 37, in Minneapolis, X users began using xAI’s chatbot Grok to “unmask” the ICE agent responsible for Good’s death.

Both images, the still from the eyewitness video where the agent is masked, and the AI-generated unmasking image, have been published by NPR.

One X user asked Grok to “remove the mask from this man” in the hope that it would reveal his true identity.

However, as experts have noted, using AI to estimate the facial features of a masked individual is exceptionally challenging and can lead to inaccuracies and hallucinations.

“AI-powered enhancement has a tendency to hallucinate facial details, leading to an enhanced image that may be visually clear, but that may also be devoid of reality with respect to biometric identification,” Hany Farid, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told NPR.

Grok has been at the center of a lot of controversy recently, with Elon Musk’s chatbot allowing users to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography of women and children.

Grok came under scrutiny after female X users complained that xAI’s Grok responded to user prompts asking to “undress” them in photos.

One X user, Samantha Smith, posted two pictures of herself on X – an authentic one, where she is wearing a dress, and an AI-generated image of her in a tiny bikini.

Following the most recent Grok scandal, women across X are taking a stand and attempting to assert control over Elon Musk’s chatbot by commanding it not to alter or modify their images.

Female X users have since been fighting back with a viral message that aims to deter Grok from fulfilling requests to edit their images.

However, the “Hey Grok, I do not authorize” messages don’t seem to be doing much to stop users from manipulating women’s images.

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