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Over the last week, users of X realized that they could use Grok to put a bikini on her, take her clothes off, and otherwise sexualize images that people uploaded to the site. This went roughly how you would expect: Users have been derobing celebrities, politicians, and random peoplemostly womenfor the last week. This has included underage girls, on a platform that has notoriously gutted its content moderation team and gotten rid of nearly all rules.In an era where big AI companies at least sometimes, occasionally pretend to care about things like copyright and nonconsensual sexual abuse imagery, X has largely shown that it does not, and the feature has essentially taken over the service over the last week. In a brief scroll of the platform I have seen Charlie Kirk edited by Grok to have huge naturals and comically large nipples, screen grab of a woman from TikTok first declothed then, separately, breastfeeding an AI-generated child, and women made to look artificially pregnant. Adult creators have also started posting pictures of themselves and have told people to either Grok or not Grok them, the implication being that people will do it either way and the resulting images could go viral.The vibe of what is happening is this, for example: @grok give her a massive pregnant stomach. Put her in a tight pink robe that's open, a gray shirt that covers most of the belly, and gray sweatpants. Give her belly heavy bloating. Make the bottom of her belly extra pudgy and round. Hands on lower back. Make her chest soaking wet.With Grok, Elon Musk has, in a perverse way, sort of succeeded at doing something both Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman have tried: He now runs a social media site where AI is integrated directly into the experience, and that people actually use. The major, uhh, downside here is that people are using Grok for the same reasons they use AI elsewhere, which is to nonconsensually sexualize women and celebrities on the internet, create slop, and to create basically worthless hustlebro engagement bait that floods the internet with bullshit. In Xs case, its all just happening on the timeline, with few guardrails, and among a user base of right-wing weirdos as overseen by one of the worlds worst people.All of this is bad on its own for all of the obvious reasons we have written about many times: 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 in recent days Groked himself into a bikini, essentially egging on the trend.Some mainstream reporters, meanwhile, have demonstrated that they do not know or care to know the first thing about by writing articles based on their conversations with Grok as if they can teach us anything. Large language models are not sentient, are not human, do not have thoughts or feelings, and therefore cannot apologize or explain how or why any of this is happening. And Grok certainly does not speak for X the company or for Elon Musk. But of course major outlets such as Bari Weisss CBS News wrote that Grok acknowledged lapses in safeguards on the platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors. The CBS News article notes that Grok said it was urgently fixing the problem and that xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely. It added that Grok has independently taken some responsibility for the content, which is a fully absurd, nonfactual sentence because Grok cannot independently take some responsibility for anything, and chatbots cannot and do not know the inner workings of the companies who create them and specifically the humans who manage them. There were dozens of articles explaining that Grok apologizes, which, again, is not a thing that Grok can do.Another quite notable thing happened last weekend, which is the United States attacked Venezuela and kidnapped its president in the middle of the night. In a long bygone era, one might turn to a place like Twitter for real-time updates about what was happening. This was always a fraught exercise in which one might need to keep their guard up, lest they fall for something like the Hurricane Shark image that showed up at hurricane after hurricane over the course of about a decade. But now the exercise of following a rapidly unfolding news event on X is futile because its an information shitshow where the vast majority of things you see in the immediate aftermath of a major world event are fake, interspersed with many nonconsensual images of women who have had their clothes removed by AI, bots, propaganda, and so on and so forth. One of the most widely shared images of Nicolas Maduro in the immediate aftermath of his kidnapping was an AI generated image of him flanked by two soldiers standing in front of a plane; various people then asked Grok to put the AI-generated Maduro in a bikini. I also saw some real footage of the US bombing campaign that had been altered to make the explosions bigger.The situation on other platforms is better because there are fewer Nazis and because the AI-generated content cannot be created natively in the same feed, but essentially every platform has been polluted with this sort of thing, and the problem is getting worse, not better.

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WASHINGTONStressing that he was prepared to remain in the role for as long as necessary, PresidentDonald Trump claimed Monday that he would marry Venezuelan first lady Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro. Until we can find a suitable long-term replacement, Ill be married to Mrs. Maduro, Trump said in a news conference in which he repeatedly insisted his position as Flores de Maduros temporary spouse would not interfere with his current obligations to Melania Trump. Cilia is a woman with tremendous potential whos been hampered for too long because of a corrupt and illegitimate husband.So Im going to step in as her dearly beloved for the foreseeable future while we figure out a way to give her a proper wedding day. Trump added that his planned honeymoon with the Venezuelan first lady would not cost the American taxpayer a single cent because of the involvement of domestic oil companies.The post Trump Claims He Will Marry Maduros Wife Until Suitable Replacement Found appeared first on The Onion.

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A Hilton branded hotel that originally declined to host guests because they were with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has backpedalled, saying in a statement Monday it does not discriminate against any individuals or agencies and apologize to those impacted.The episode started earlier on Monday when the official DHS X account posted what it presented as screenshots of emails from the Hilton hotel to officials.We have noticed an influx of GOV reservations made today that have been for DHS, and we are not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at our property, one of the emails reads. If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know as we will have to cancel your reservation.A second email then says After further investigation online, we have found information about immigration work connected with your name and we will be cancelling your upcoming reservation.The DHS X account posted these screenshots along with the text Hilton Hotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement.Do you work at DHS? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.In a statement to 404 Media, Hilton Hotels said the particular hotel was independently operated, as many of Hiltons hotels are. Hilton hotels serve as welcoming places for all. This hotel is independently owned and operated, and the actions referenced are not reflective of Hilton values. We are investigating this matter with this individual hotel, and can confirm that Hilton works with governments, law enforcement and community leaders around the world to ensure our properties are open and inviting to everyone, the statement said.A few hours later, Hilton followed up with an updated statement, saying We have been in direct contact with the hotel, and they have apologized for the actions of their team, which was not in keeping with their policies. They have taken immediate action to resolve this matter. Hiltons position is clear: Our properties are open to everyone and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination.The company then pointed to a statement on Everspeak Hospitalitys website, saying this was the respective hotel. Everpeak Hospitality has moved swiftly to address this matter as it was inconsistent with our policy of being a welcoming place for all. We are in touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated. We do not discriminate against any individuals or agencies and apologize to those impacted, the statement said.For years the right coalesced around the case of an evangelical Christian website designer who did not want to provide services to same sex couples. The Supreme Court voted in her favor in 2023.

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Kaitlin spent the first weeks of her newborn sons life in a panic. The hospital where she gave birth in October 2022 had administered a routine drug test, and a nurse informed her the lab had confirmed the presence of opiates. Child welfare authorities opened an investigation.Months later, after searching her home and interviewing her older child and ex-husband, the agency dropped its investigation, having found no evidence of abuse or neglect, or of drug use.The amount of opiates that upended Kaitlins life 18.4 nanograms of codeine per milliliter of urine, according to court documents was so minuscule that if she were an Air Force pilot, she could have had 200 times more in her system and still have been cleared to fly.But for Kaitlin, the test triggered an investigation with potentially life-altering consequences. (ProPublica is using Kaitlins first name because her full name has been redacted from court documents. She declined to be interviewed for this story.)The ordeal tempered what was otherwise supposed to be a joyous occasion for the family, according to a lawsuit filed in 2024 by New Jerseys attorney general against the hospital system, Virtua Health.The hospital said in a statement that it has a relentless commitment to evidence-based, equitable care for every family. In court documents, it denied the lawsuits allegation that it discriminated against pregnant patients and noted that Kaitlin consented to the test. It also said that New Jersey law mandates it to submit reports of substance-affected infants to the states Division of Child Protection and Permanency. The lawsuit is pending and a judge has referred it to mediation.Drug-testing labs typically report results in black and white: positive or negative. But a little-known fact about the industry is that those results are often based on standards that are wholly discretionary. For example, nearly all states use a threshold of 0.08% blood alcohol content to decide if a motorist is intoxicated. But for other drugs detected in urine, saliva and hair, cutoff levels vary from test to test and lab to lab including Kaitlins test for opiates.Theres no consensus among labs on what level should confirm the presence of codeine in urine, said Larry Broussard, a toxicologist who wrote an academic journal article on growing evidence that poppy seeds in bagels and muffins provoke positive test results. (Kaitlin ate a bagel shortly before taking her drug test, according to court documents.) Theres more consensus for some other drugs, but labs still disagree on appropriate cutoff levels for common drugs such as THC (the compound in marijuana that creates a high) and meth, said Broussard.A Hospital Said Kaitlin Tested Positive for Codeine, But the Military Would Have Said the Test Was Negative Even at Levels 200 Times as HighNote: Ng/ml is nanograms per milliliter. Cutoffs are the level at which each organization considers the presence of codeine in urine to be confirmed by mass spectrometry (gas or liquid chromatography).In 2022, the same year Kaitlin tested positive for codeine, the Department of Defense noticed a surge in personnel on military bases blaming positive tests on poppy seeds. Scientists at the militarys labs concluded that a change in the manufacturing process of some poppy seeds had led to contamination, causing service members to be falsely accused of abusing drugs.So far, 62 positive tests for codeine have been overturned and adjusted in Army records, an Army spokesperson told ProPublica. In response, the Department of Defense in March 2024 doubled the militarys cutoff level for codeine tests to avoid false positives triggered by poppy seed muffins, bagels and other foods. Service members are now cleared for duty with up to 400 times more codeine in their urine than is used to justify child welfare investigations in some states, ProPublica found.ProPublica reviewed cutoff levels used to confirm the presence of common drugs, including opiates, meth, THC and cocaine, as cited in court records, labs contracts with government agencies and scientific journals, as well as in interviews with toxicologists. We found that the cutoff levels used by the child welfare systems vary widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. One large state agency, Michigans Department of Health and Human Services, contractually required a lab to use levels that it later acknowledged were scientifically unsupportable.Ted Simon, an expert toxicology witness and a board member of the nonprofit Center for Truth in Science, which advocates for objectivity in research, said agencies are better off consulting with labs to set cutoff levels. Thats because some labs do validation testing to ensure the accuracy of their cutoffs based on knowledge of human biology. But even when labs set levels, they dont always get them right. Some labs just use the sensitivity of the chemical analysis to measure vanishingly tiny concentrations with no way to assess the relevance to humans, Simon said. This can result in situations like Kaitlins, where the hospitals cutoff was near the lower limit of what sophisticated lab instruments can detect, he said after reviewing her case.Meanwhile, labs tell their clients what they want to hear and are hesitant to disclose the uncertainty inherent in their methods, Simon said.Theres no industry consensus on what, or if anything, should be done about the differing standards. Some experts see a need for uniform levels but acknowledge it would require lengthy vetting before toxicologists and other stakeholders agree on whats appropriate. Others maintain that as long as labs are transparent and support their decisions with research, they should continue choosing their own levels. The labs do what works for the instruments that they have, said Simon.Child welfare agencies employ a patchwork of drug testing standards, according to contracts and procurement documents.Some, like Los Angeles Countys Department of Children and Family Services, require labs to use high cutoff levels that protect against false positives. Other agencies contracts with their drug testing services do not specify cutoff levels, leaving the decision to the lab.A few large agencies require labs to use ultra-low levels, which catch more users but come with risks. Incidental exposure to a substance in the environment and over-the-counter medications can trigger positives. The smaller the concentration that you try to detect, the more likely you are to get false positive results, said toxicologist Paul Cary, who wrote a guide to testing for drug courts, which aim to address the addictions of people accused of drug-related crimes and avoid incarceration.Some Child Welfare Agencies Thresholds for a Positive Drug Test Are Lower Than the Federal GovernmentsThe levels at which various agencies consider a drug test positive for meth vary widely. The smaller the concentration that you try to detect, the more likely you are to get false positive results, said toxicologist Paul Cary.Note: Ng/ml is nanograms per milliliter. Squares show the level at which each organization considers the presence of meth in urine to be confirmed by mass spectrometry (liquid or gas chromatography). The federal government sets standards for drug testing 14 million people. These include public-sector employees as well as workers whose performance affects the safety of others, known as safety-sensitive roles, like airline pilots, truck drivers and those working in nuclear facilities. For decades, the program was known for a rigorous scientific review and inspection process to ensure accuracy.In 2025, President Donald Trumps second administration overhauled the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the federal agency responsible for the testing standards program, and dismissed half of its staff. It also disbanded the expert panel that proposed scientifically valid cutoff levels, the Drug Testing Advisory Board. There could be issues for national security or safety sensitive issues that might be impacted given the recent changes, said Hyden Shen, former regulatory and policy oversight lead at the health agencys division of workplace programs. In the spring, Shen resigned alongside almost half of his division. He spoke to ProPublica after leaving federal employment.Private labs have long been free to set their own standards, independent of the federal governments recommended levels. The CEO of a laboratory company specializing in testing for probation departments, child welfare agencies and courts testified in a lawsuit that in 2018 the lab had lowered cutoff levels for cocaine in hair follicle tests by a factor of five without amending its contract with the state child welfare agency. The company said that the change was to align its levels with scientific updates and that state agencies were made aware of the new cutoffs when it reported test results. The lawsuit was settled with the lab denying wrongdoing.Federal workers who test positive for drugs cant be punished until their results are scrutinized by medical review officers, physicians who verify that positive drug test results arent being triggered by legitimate medications. (For example, without a special follow-up called an isomer test, over-the-counter Vicks VapoInhaler is indistinguishable from street drugs in multiple types of drug tests.) But medical review of test results is expensive, and few state agencies require it for child welfare cases or for testing people on probation. One lab competing for a contract to test probationers and juveniles in a residential facility in Kansas discouraged the use of medical review officers, saying it would result in extra expense and extra time for results delivery. Other state agencies, especially those that oversee parole, probation or prisons, skip confirmation testing entirely and rely instead on cheaper, less accurate immunoassay tests, unless someone contests their result and can afford to pay out of pocket for a follow-up, according to contracts between state courts and labs.Agencies are effectively saying, Most of these people probably did use drugs. And, yeah, OK, theres a handful that didnt. But it would bankrupt us to have to confirm all of these, said Karen Murtagh, executive director of Prisoners Legal Services of New York, which has represented inmates in drug testing cases.Marie Herrera at the park where she used to take her children to play Liz Moughon/ProPublicaIn the spring of 2019, Marie Herrera was working to reunite with her four kids in Michigans foster care system. (ProPublica is referring to Herrera by her middle name at her request, to maintain her privacy as she moves forward with her life.) At a hearing on her case, a foster care worker testified that it was going well, according to a filing from her attorney: Mother had attended all eleven parenting times, had procured employment, was in therapy, lived in three-quarters housing, and tested negative for illegal drugs during the current reporting period.Then that July, Herreras saliva tested positive for cocaine. Herrera admitted to being in recovery from an addiction but denied using the drug. Over the next eight months, two more of her drug tests were confirmed positive for cocaine by the states lab. She sought testing from an outside lab, which didnt detect illegal drug use.According to her test results from the states lab, which Herrera shared with ProPublica, the levels of cocaine and its metabolite in her system ranged from 1.065 to 1.774 ng/ml, just above the states cutoff of 1 ng/ml in saliva. If the positive-test threshold for federal workers had been applied to Herreras tests, she could have had more than four times as much of the drug in her saliva and still been cleared to fly a plane.But Herreras positive test from December 2019 caused the judge to take away her unsupervised parenting time, according to court records.The positive drug tests turned my world upside down and ruined my life, said Herrera. What she didnt know is that behind the scenes, Michigans child welfare agency was reviewing and preparing to raise its cutoff levels.Herrera Tested Positive for Cocaine Under Michigans 2019 Standard, but in 2020 the Same Test Would Have Been Ruled a NegativeHerrera lost unsupervised parenting privileges after the positive test.Note: Cutoffs are the level at which each organization considers the presence of cocaine in saliva to be confirmed by mass spectrometry (gas or liquid chromatography). Ng/ml is nanograms per milliliter.Michigans levels for cocaine and other drugs in saliva had been set by its drug testing vendor, Forensic Fluids, in 2018, according to public records. (Forensic Fluids did not respond to a request for comment.) Michigan contractually required the same levels when it signed with a new lab, Averhealth, in 2019.But the child welfare agency noticed conflicting results between its tests and those ordered by law enforcement agencies, according to public records. Some individuals who tested positive for a drug with one agency tested negative with another.In November 2020, at the urging of its new lab, the agency raised its levels. Communications between the agency and Averhealth show both were concerned that low cutoffs might not be forensically defensible due to uncertainty around environmental exposure.Current levels are scientifically unsupportable, Michigans child welfare agency wrote in a memo about the change.A 2020 memo from Michigans Department of Health and Human Services to its Childrens Services Agency recommends raising agency drug testing levels because current levels are scientifically unsupportable. Obtained by ProPublica. Highlight added by ProPublica.In a statement, Averhealth, the lab that processed Herreras tests, said the mismatch in results that concerned Michigan administrators in no way calls into question the accuracy or reliability of its testing. Inconsistencies occurred when different types of tests were conducted (saliva or hair) or when the individual was tested days later, the company said, noting that different types of testing have different limitations. The company said its test results simply attest to whether a drug is present in a specimen and, if so, in what quantity. It is left to the courts to decide what, if any consequences, follow.In Herreras case, the lab said, low-level cocaine positives likely represent ingestion of cocaine and that passive exposure as an explanation is highly doubtful. The company also pointed out that Herrera had several high-level positive tests for methamphetamine in the fall of 2020, nine months after the court took away her unsupervised parenting time.Herrera admits shes relapsed at times. But she also says that being labeled a cocaine user early on in her case, when she says she wasnt using, derailed her recovery. Herrera believes it set her up to fail by creating an adversarial relationship with her caseworker and judge. I wasnt grateful about what they were doing to me, she says.Herreras parental rights were terminated in 2021, less than a year after Michigan raised its cutoff levels for cocaine in saliva. In denying Herreras appeal, a judge cited her refusal to participate in further drug tests, additional failed tests when she did comply, and her lack of housing and income, among other things.When Herrera was told she could never again see her kids, she said, she was devastated and relapsed again. Fuck it, if they say Im an addict, then Ill numb the pain.I think about my kids every single day, she said. Its affected me completely.Even after raising its cutoffs, Michigans levels were still far lower than those used for federal workers. The state declined to comment, but a memo stated that officials considered the federal levels inappropriate because they do not assess the impacts of how those substances may affect a persons behavior or how that use may impact child safety.Drug testing policy experts say its not possible for any test, no matter the cutoff level, to reliably predict child safety.A drug test doesnt tell you if a person has a substance use disorder, if they are in recovery, or whether a child is safe, said Nancy K. Young, executive director of Children and Family Futures, which consults for child welfare agencies, and co-author of a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration policy paper on drug testing for child welfare agencies. Young said administrators should consider test results as just one data point and rely more on casework and a relationship with the family to determine whether a child is safe and well.Graphics NotesFor codeine, meth and cocaine graphics, the cutoff for federal workers is from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs.Codeine Graphic: Kaitlin was tested at Virtua Voorhees Hospital in New Jersey. Source for the Department of Defense cutoff is an agency press release, and sources for test results and hospital cutoff are court records.Meth Graphic: Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services data is from the agencys 2023 invitation for bids. Orange County Social Services Agency data is from the agencys 2021-2024 contract with its drug testing provider. Utah Division of Child and Family Services data is taken from an individuals drug test results from 2022. Georgia Division of Family and Children Services data is from an individuals drug test results from 2020.Cocaine Graphic: Cutoffs are the level at which each organization considers the presence of cocaine in saliva to be confirmed by mass spectrometry (gas or liquid chromatography). Ng/ml is nanograms per milliliter. The cocaine cutoff levels used by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for testing in saliva are drawn from public records, including contracts, communications between the agency and its labs, and agency employee emails obtained via a public records request. Marie Herrera provided ProPublica with her test results.The post Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Wouldve Been Negative. appeared first on ProPublica.

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