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  <title>NBC Connecticut: Concerns grow over Elon Musk's AI chatbot ‘Grok' being used for criminal activity</title>
  <pubDate>January 16, 2026</pubDate>
  <description>Vahid Behzadan, associate professor of cybersecurity, data science, and computer and electrical engineering, director of the SAIL Lab, and co-founder of the Connecticut Artificial Intelligence Alliance, discusses how X’s Grok AI tool, built directly into the platform, can digitally undress adults and children in pictures online, creating in just seconds explicit images without consent.</description>
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  <external_link>https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/video/news/local/concerns-grow-over-elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-being-used-for-criminal-activity/3687860/</external_link>
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  <author>vahid-behzadan</author>
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    <tag>month-january</tag>
    <tag>name-vahid-behzadan</tag><tag>college-engineering</tag>
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