AI Incident Database: Grok Allegedly Generated Publicly Visible Sexist Abuse Targeting Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter After X User Prompt
An X user reportedly prompted xAI's Grok to generate a vulgar "roast" targeting Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter. Grok allegedly produced publicly visible sexist and insulting output about Keller-Sutter that was reportedly shareable on X before being deleted. Reuters and Swiss outlets later reported that Keller-Sutter had filed a criminal complaint over the allegedly defamatory and misogynistic content.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1437Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
An X user reportedly prompted xAI's Grok to generate a vulgar "roast" targeting Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter. Grok allegedly produced publicly visible sexist and insulting output about Keller-Sutter that was reportedly shareable on X before being deleted. Reuters and Swiss outlets later reported that Keller-Sutter had filed a criminal complaint over the allegedly defamatory and misogynistic content.
Linked entities
- X / xAI
vendor | 70%
- peter-k.-or-peter-p.
organisation | 70%
- karin-keller-sutter
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d8 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d8 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d8 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-x-xai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |