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Comment by tartuffe78 | Hacker News Reader

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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