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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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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I guess my brain equated from with X and reached the intended conclusion. I assumed that the title meant what you say the article is.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not as quick as you. I got most of the way through article and was still wondering why X would expose a database of historical prompts to an llm for querying by law enforcement.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Oh, I wasn't trying to diss you, I was mentioning that I failed to recognise the difference between grok and X, I was actually berating myself from accidentally understanding the title for the wrong reasons haha.