Giant Statue of Elon Musk Raised in Times Square to Protest Grok

In the middle of New York City’s Times Square, a giant, colorful skyscraper Elon Musk it went up a lot for tourists and travelers earlier today. He was surrounded by black banners saying “Grok makes AI child porn” and “SpaceX owns Grok,” referring to Musk. AI chatbot who a photo editing tool was used to create a flood of sexual images of children earlier this year. Masked officials stood nearby, handing out leaflets with information, but did not speak to reporters.

The demonstration was sponsored by Safe AI Now (SAIN), which calls itself “a coalition of religious leaders, family advocates, child development professionals, cybersecurity organizations, educators, law enforcement experts, technology experts, and concerned citizens,” before SpaceX on Friday. The location was chosen wisely—in front of the Nasdaq and the offices of JP Morgan, one of the banks. participate in the IPO.

SpaceX is important right now $1.77 trillionmaking it the largest company ever to go public, with a starting price of $135 per share. Although people can buy shares in the company, Musk will still retain most of the voting power, which gives him the ability to make decisions about the company. The IPO can make him stay again the first trillion in the world.

But a SAIN representative, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation from Musk, told WIRED that the plan represents a real threat to a company whose investors and banks backing the IPO aren’t taking action.

“This IPO is a change in complexity,” he says. “Elon started all of this. It’s all the decisions they made. All the money they paid for the lawsuits, the regulatory fees, the investigation, all of that is being paid to the shareholders.”

SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In February, Musk announced this SpaceX was buying xAIMusk’s smart design company founded by designer Grok. The announcement comes as xAI faces scrutiny in the US and abroad over its chatbot’s ability to produce nude images of women and children. In January, the European Commission announced that it would happen to investigate the company “assessing whether the company has properly assessed and mitigated the risk” to prevent the production of inappropriate sexual images. In March, three girls wrote a class action conflict xAI because its technology was used to create their genitals, and in January, 35 Attorney Generals signed with an open letter for the company, requiring it to take steps to remove sexually inappropriate images and put in place measures to prevent the tool from doing so in the future. Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children, and a reserved suit against xAI for making pornographic images of him.

Today, WIRED reported that Grok is hosting inappropriate, pornographic images of womenincluding US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and celebrities.

In February post on Xwhich Musk also owns, he wrote that “Grok must win or we will be ruled by an indisputable and sacred AI.”

“It’s easy to get distracted by the shiny IPO news.” And I think that’s what they’re hoping will happen,” the SAIN representative says. “But there’s real harm, real risk. I think that if we are changing everywhere – from the banks that are listing to the NASDAQ that is listing its buyers – the company that has the most dangerous platform in Grok, reproducing this kind of pornography, there is a real problem.”