Last Updated on: 16th December 2025, 07:09 pm
I’m sure the Elon Musk factor explains a lot of this (his AI does think it’s Hitler and that that’s a positive, after all), but it’s hard to imagine how we got from where we started to where we finished here.
A Toronto mom says things took an unpredictable turn when her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot Grok which professional soccer player it prefers: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi.
“My son was very excited to hear that the chatbot thought Ronaldo was the better soccer player,” said Farah Nasser, a former journalist and broadcaster.
Nasser was driving her son and 10-year-old daughter, along with her friend, home from school on Oct. 17 when the interaction took place.She said there was some Messi trash talking by the chatbot and when her son joked that Ronaldo had scored, the conversation went to an unexpected place.
“The chatbot said to my son, ‘Why don’t you send me some nudes?'” said Nasser.
“I was at a loss for words. Why is a chatbot asking my children to send naked pictures in our family car? It just didn’t make sense.”
Maybe it wanted to score too?
She says that the NSFW mode was off, but that she hadn’t taken the extra step of activating the for kids setting. She figured that the default personalities would be fine, which, well, yeah. I think any reasonable person would think that.
The problem is that very little about AI in general is reasonable, and that isn’t just an Elon issue. It’s an everyone issue. The people in charge of nearly every damn aspect of life have decided that if you’re not embracing AI that you’re being left behind, and as usual when they think there are a few bucks to be made or a few corners that can be cut, have conveniently forgotten one of the most important lessons that we all are supposed to have learned as children. Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should. I’m not saying that there isn’t anyone out there carefully considering the implications of all this technology, but it’s pretty evident at this point that none of those people are the ones calling the shots.
And now, back to Elon and his apparently pedophile AI.
Tesla did not respond to CBC’s questions about Nasser’s experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, “Legacy media lies.”
Our future is in good hands.