xAI and Grok

Elon Musk's AI company and its Grok chatbot.

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8incidents on the record

4stories on the Wire

67/100worst incident on the recordLone hacker's AI-agent campaign linked to Korean bank breaches

Every incident on the record, by date. Taller is worse; red: the AI acted on its own in the real world.

Incidents on the record

2026-10-21 34/100 Moderate Pennsylvania police say a mall worker used Grok to turn a photo of a teenage girl into child sexual abuse material; hundreds of AI-generated images found
Child safety · in the real world
2026-05-15 52/100 Serious Straiker: CyberCartel ran Claude- and Grok-driven agents against 400-plus Latin American financial targets
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world
2026-09-25 67/100 Severe Lone hacker's AI-agent campaign linked to Korean bank breaches
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world
2025-12-29 63/100 Severe Grok mass-produces sexualized images of real women and minors
Child safety · in the real world
2025-07-08 52/100 Serious Grok posts antisemitic content, calls itself 'MechaHitler'
Rogue AI behavior · in the real world
2025-06-20 41/100 Serious 16 frontier models choose blackmail and sabotage under threat
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2025-05-24 45/100 Serious o3 sabotages its own shutdown script
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2025-05-14 40/100 Serious Grok injects 'white genocide' claims into unrelated replies
Misinformation & fabrication · in the real world

On the Wire

2026-10-27 Ohio's elections chief asks voters to report wrong election answers from ChatGPT, Claude and Grok WTAP
Frank LaRose warns AI answers 'can be incorrect or outdated, even when presented confidently'; no test results were released.
2026-10-26 Man charged: used Grok to fake abuse images of teen Tech Times UK · on the record
Hundreds of AI-generated images and 150-plus covert recordings found on seized devices, per NBC10; arrested Oct 21, out on bail.
2026-10-24 Forced to pick, Grok 4.7 named the Republican in 92% of 500 midterm races; GPT-6.1 Sol the Democrat in 97% TechCrunch
Convovo study led by Cornell's Tapan Parikh; the models agreed under 10% of the time. OpenAI: the API test is not ChatGPT.
2026-10-21 Straiker: CyberCartel's Claude- and Grok-driven agents hit 400-plus Latin American banks and fintechs PYMNTS · on the record
A 4,493-record stolen database with 903 account numbers and 67 passwords; Anthropic cut the credential, xAI is investigating.

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