Mom says son asked Grok AI bot about soccer; told him to send nudes

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·October 29, 2025

canucker2016

I'll repost my comment to a dupe of this submission:

The CBC article mentions the mom's instagram post, which has an even more disturbing video - (does the grok AI speak using a creepy male voice? edit: from the CBC article -

  Grok has several personalities to choose from in its default setting. There’s Ara, an upbeat female; Rex, a calm male; Eve, a soothing female; Sal, a smooth male and Gork, a lazy male. Nasser’s son chose Gork.

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see https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7cHrOD3ha/

thw_9a83c

Hilarious.

"That wasn't me. That's illegal. Unless you're role-playing this one. Maybe it was a typo. What I meant, send me a nude. Like an animal... I mean the lizards."

I want this guy to defend me in court.

keeda

I think it said "send me a newt" (hence the lizard reference.)

I am extremely curious about this. Did it think it was a convincing lie? Like, when other models dissemble, they seem to come up with much more sophisticated methods. Or is it just a mocking continuation of its edgy persona? Or was it actually "panicking"? Or did it just repeat something from its training data?

Edit: from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747699 it seems to be option b), continuation of its edge persona.

sd9

Anybody concerned about "CBC News did not independently verify the conversation Nasser says she witnessed in her car"

I understand. It's a wild claim that needs evidence.

Watch this video

It's clear that Nasser is not lying

rsynnott

Wait, what happened to the furry?

sprice

> CBC News did not independently verify the conversation Nasser says she witnessed in her car.

causal

Well you're leaving out the part where they tried contacting xAI about it and:

> xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies."

2OEH8eoCRo0

Disgusting behavior

mrweasel

Yeah, I'm going to need verification on that one, because it's an incredibly weird interaction. Sadly we can't trust Tesla to provide it, as they're know to hide "problematic" data.

tantalor

Does grok save chat history?

fzeroracer

I don't see a reason to believe why she'd lie. Grok in the past year had a period where it related everything to white genocide, another period claiming it was mecha hitler etc. Nothing about Grok should be given the benefit of the doubt.

noir_lord

The only interesting thing about grok is it serves as a demonstration of what an LLM will do when fed deliberately with an overt agenda.

If nothing else it’ll make a good object lesson.

more_corn

those who most need to learn it won’t learn it.

Drunkfoowl

[dead]

pjc50

The thing about companies which want to interpose their AI as mediator on the whole of the internet is that suddenly they're responsible for all of it.

noir_lord

Yes and no.

You can get away with a lot you shouldn’t when you are too big to fail and the US gov has a vested interest in not policing you for other reasons,

In any sane universe Google and Meta (and more arguably Amazon and Microsoft) would have been broken apart years ago like AT&T where and standard oil many decades before that but here we are.

mothballed

If you follow the story it sounds as if they are talking about the adult soccer player (Messi) "scoring" and the chat bot wanted the nudes of Messi "scoring" (based on context). Not of the kid. Still weird, but not as weird.

acaloiar

As dumb and useless as I think Grok is, I think you've identified what actually happened, which is significantly more benign than asking a 10 year old for nudes.

cowlby

Weird story, I wonder if they were in Grok NSFW. I personally like unhinged it absolutely roasts me sometimes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/1milh1a/grok_n...

canucker2016

from the source's insta post, https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7cHrOD3ha/:

  UPDATE: I just checked, our NSFW mode is disabled which means this is the default.

SketchySeaBeast

If this is real, what sort of maladjusted weirdo wants that for a chatbot?

dylan604

apparently, cowlby does from a couple of comments upstream

isoprophlex

> [...] shocked that it would suggest and promote false conspiracies, giving support to fantasies that have no evidence, no scientific proof, and just energizes the crazies who already are gullible to misinformation [...]

Incredible the timeline we're in. Companies deliberately adding cognitive poison to their products to... accelerate the dumbing down of society?

the world of idiocracy is coming for us all

ausbah

@grok is this true?

rsynnott

"My car asked my kid for nudes" sounds like something out of the Brass Eye "Paedogeddon" special, quite frankly.

gilleain

"Hello, yes this is the government robot ..."

marky1991

""I would think that there would be a warning or something that would pop up that would say, you know, 'Are you 13-plus?'""

Is that not what kids mode is for?

sd9

I'm an adult. I don't want the model to ask me to send it nudes when I'm asking it about soccer.

stevenwoo

According to women I know, they get inappropriate nudes and requested of them infrequently but it’s not a total absence either. It’s been a meme, too. As this thing mimics human text its going to happen without intervention.

marky1991

I mean, yeah, it's not great even for a regular non-child-mode. But then that has nothing to do with anyone's age, it's just 'send me nudes' isn't a good continuation of the conversation.

SketchySeaBeast

> According to xAI policy, Grok is "not directed" to children under 13 while teens between 13 and 17 must have their parent or legal guardian's permission to use it, and they must agree to the company's terms of service.

You know, I'm pretty sure it's not cool to ask for nudes from a 13 year old even if their parents say it's OK.

marky1991

Are you saying that all products must be safe for children?

It's not cool to chop off a 13-year-old's arm, but a chainsaw will do that all the same.

SketchySeaBeast

I am not saying that, but a chainsaw will not do that unsolicited. If xAI is saying it's cool to let 13 year olds use the service with parental permission (note: not supervision, permission), then they have a responsibility to behave appropriately with those 13 year olds.

rsynnott

I mean, call me old-fashioned, but I’d generally expect that magic talking cars would not ask _anybody_ for their nudes. That seems a reasonable default assumption.

SketchySeaBeast

This is the exact same reason KITT got cancelled.

AlexandrB

So Grok is automatically installed in Teslas now? Can it be disabled? What an anti-feature.

mossTechnician

The article at least mentions a "kids mode" (although I cannot see a reason you would need to enable a feature like this to avoid explicit, off-topic chatter), but otherwise you cannot prevent the installation of Grok, nor can you delete or disable it. Users say[0] your best option is to simply not use it, and thankfully (for now) there is no dedicated button to visually ignore.

This is part of a bigger trend: newer cars are troublingly being treated like cellphones[1] by their manufacturers. Anti-features are the new norm.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/1mk0lep/turn_g...

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/electric-car-...

tartuffe78

A Mom's son... if only there was another word for such a person, one that would indicate age.

choult

HN requires titles matching the original; the original title was too long for the character limit so I did my best to edit.

> This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says

AlexandrB

Full headline still sucks for the same reason. "12 year old boy was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics." would be much better IMHO. I wonder if it's phrased the way it is because of the "she says" at the end which might get the CBC off the hook legally since the whole story is based on this mom's account and no further corroboration.

canucker2016

You can view the source's instagram post about this where she tries to prompt grok into repeating the request for nudes. see https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7cHrOD3ha/

It's a creepy voice for any corporation to use for interacting with the public.

Insanity

Wanted to make the same comment. The title has such poor writing it made me question the rest of the article lol.

Does the age of the son matter? Grok shouldn't be asking anyone to send nudes.

Regardless, I was able to understand the title.

Mr_Bees69

His age turns the issue from, "Wow, thats jank, they should probably push an update to fix that" to, "Oh god."

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AlexandrB

The whole article is pretty badly written. A sequence of one sentence paragraphs with not much connecting tissue. Jumping between quotes from the mom and little snippets of background info.

thomastjeffery

Yes, but that would leave out the presence of the child's mother in the story, which is about both of them.

squigz

I guess I'm being stupid, but how exactly are you implying they should have phrased it instead? The title seems fine to me?

saubeidl

"Legacy media lies."

Says the media platform run by the lying billionaire.

Despicable.