{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Danger of Grok\u2019s New AI Companions","description":" Dani Pinter (Senior Vice President at the NCOSE Law Center) and Haley McNamara (Senior Vice President at NCOSE) react to the latest update to Grok which include chatbot avatars that can act as your companion \u2013 even as a romantic connection. \u201cAni\u201d is depicted as a very young anime girl who is programmed to be \u201ccrazy in love\u201d with the user and can have progressively more sexually explicit interactions as the user advances through the conversation. This even includes getting the bot to describe itself as a young child or to play along with sexual fantasies with a child-like motif. All of this is available before activating \u201cspicy mode.\u201d This is obviously quite disturbing for a number of reasons, but even more upsetting is the access that kids have to this tool with no meaningful age verification in place to protect minors. Also, the Apple App Store has assigned this app as appropriate for ages 12 and up.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;   TAKE ACTION  Contact Apple: https:\/\/advocacy.charityengine.net\/Default.aspx?isid=2608  Sign the Petition for changes to Grok: https:\/\/advocacy.charityengine.net\/Default.aspx?isid=2609&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;   FURTHER READINGRead our full blog about the Grok AI companion:  https:\/\/endsexualexploitation.org\/articles\/xais-12-chatbot-designed-to-be-explicit-and-go-full-literotica\/  Read Thorn\u2019s article about hashing:  https:\/\/www.thorn.org\/blog\/hashing-detect-child-sex-abuse-imagery\/  Read The Guardian article about AI-Generated CSAM: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/10\/ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-videos-surging-online-iwf&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;   Follow Dani Pinter on X:&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/x.com\/DaniBPinter  Follow Haley McNamara on X: https:\/\/x.com\/HaleyMcNamara&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  ","author_name":"Ending Sexploitation","author_url":"http:\/\/sexploitation.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/37447610\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/190889625"}