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The FBI got a search warrant for X to provide details on the Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create more than 200 nonconsensual sexual videos of a woman he knew in real life, according to court records.

The details of the investigation are contained in an FBI affidavit about the alleged actions of Simon Tuck, who is accused of extensively harassing and threatening the woman’s husband. Tuck regularly worked out with and texted with the woman and, according to the affidavit, secretly filmed her while she was working out in his garage. Over the course of the last several months, Tuck swatted their home, made a series of anonymous reports to the man’s employer claiming that he was a child abuser and a drug addict, posed as the man and made a series of mass shooting and suicide threats. Tuck also made a series of other threats and bizarre actions, which included reaching out to a funeral home to say that the man would be dead soon and sending threats to the man while posing as a member of Sector 16, a Russian hacking crew.

The affidavit notes that, in January, the FBI got a search warrant for the man’s conversations with Grok. The FBI says that it received “prompts provided to GrokAI that generated approximately 200 pornographic videos of a woman who closely resembled VICTIM’s wife’s physical appearance.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20260225192408/https://www.404media.co/fbi-subpoenaed-x-to-get-grok-prompts-used-to-create-nonconsensual-porn/

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 18 points 57 minutes ago (4 children)

I’m usually against complaints about poor headlines, but this one is completely factually incorrect? The FBI didn’t interact with Grok here literally at all? They issued a search warrant to X to get their logs?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 14 points 50 minutes ago

Yeah, there's no fucking way "Well Grok told me these are the prompts they used" would be admissible as evidence of any kind.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 30 minutes ago

I’m usually against complaints about poor headlines

Why are you against complaints? They are what most people who are super busy (voters) tend to only read. If they're bad or misleading, then most of our voters have bad information or are mislead.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 1 points 21 minutes ago

It is possible simply to ask a chatbot to reveal their prompt. And Grok isn't exactly one to push back on anything.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 22 minutes ago

The earliest draft title seems to be "FBI Subpoenaed X To Get Grok Prompts Used To Create Nonconsensual Porn"

Which, in my opinion, is more technically correct (especially for a draft) but a whole lot harder to parse. They interacted with the Grok makers, which is kind of what I assumed

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 9 points 1 hour ago

Seems like there were a lot more serious crimes in his list than the salacious one in the headline.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 4 points 42 minutes ago

Sounds like a grok user

[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 17 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Probably because Trump wants to use them for himself.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 9 points 1 hour ago

To relive the "good ole days"

Sick fuck, would.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 9 points 1 hour ago

I'm no expert in adultery, but this sounds a lot like an affair gone awry.

She was "working out in his garage"? This doesn't excuse his behavior one bit. I'm just saying. Crazy situation all around.