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Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam

BeauHD / slashdot - A viral Reddit "whistleblower" post accusing a major food delivery app of systemic exploitation is "most likely AI-generated," reports the Verge. From the report: The original post by user Trowaway_whistleblow alleged that an unnamed food delivery company…

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I reposted this a few days ago and it got spread around. It appears to be fabricated. When Casey Newton tried to do follow-up reporting, he was given AI generated fake evidence by the purported whistle-blower. www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

2 months / bsky / @tom.eastman.nz / tom.eastman.nz

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

2 months / platformer / Casey Newton

Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam

2 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Viral Reddit post critical of food delivery apps may have been AI-generated

2 months / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

2 months / reddit / /u/Franco1875

DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI

2 months / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

2 months / theverge / Elissa Welle

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UK regulator asks X about reports its AI makes 'sexualised images of children'

bbc - Elon Musk's social media platform has warned users not to use Grok to generate illegal content.


Global Regulatory Investigations

Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children

2 months / cnbc

Grok under investigation for sexualized deepfake generation

2 months / mashable

EU Condemns Musk’s Grok for Illegal Sexualized Images of Kids

2 months / bloomberg / Olivia Solon

UK regulator asks X about reports its AI makes 'sexualised images of children'

2 months / bbc

UK watchdog in ‘urgent contact’ with Musk’s X over AI-generated sexualized images of children

2 months / politico / Mizy Clifton

France and Malaysia investigate Grok for sexualized deepfakes

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen


Other Coverage

Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow

2 months / 404media / Jason Koebler


Platform Accountability

Elon Musk's xAI Refuses to Rein In Grok as Non-Consensual Deepfakes Run Wild

2 months / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

2 months / ycombinator

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

2 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Grok apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children

2 months / techxplore


Safe Harbour Policy Threats

From CSAM to Deepfakes: X Faces Safe Harbor Revoke Threat Over Grok’s Obscene Content

2 months / medianama / Azdhan

Centre Mulls Revoking X’s Safe Harbour Over Grok Misuse: Report

2 months / inc42 / Palak Sharma

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/4/2026

2 months / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847


All Other Stories

foreign regulators are on it - usa regulators mum on xAI Grok deepfake porn problems… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/i...

2 months / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

With Grok, Elon Musk has, in a perverse way, sort of succeeded at doing something Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman have tried: Running a social media site where AI is integrated and that people actually use. The major downsides? Yeah, a whole lot:

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

All of this is bad: AI models are often trained on images of children, AI is used disproportionately against women, X is generally a cesspool, etc. Elon Musk of all people has not shown any indication that he remotely cares about any of this, and has ev

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

And as this is happening in realtime with real world events, mainstream media have demonstrated that they do not know or care to know the first thing about by writing articles about LLMs. There were dozens of articles explaining that “Grok apologizes,” w

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

2 months / bsky / @tepski.tech / tepski.tech

Musk is now peddling paedophilia Anyone remaining on his X site is complicit in this absolute horror

2 months / bsky / @neilmackay.bsky.social / neilmackay.bsky.social

U.K. communications watchdog Ofcom is looking into whether X may be in breach of British online safety regulations following a series of reports that its AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit images of children.

2 months / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

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