Earlier this week, Futurism reported that Grok — the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-owned AI venture xAI, perhaps best known for its frequent forays into unbridled antisemitism — was willing to find and compile extensive information about private people, which it gathered from murky databases and other sources from across the web.

Since that capability immediately seemed like it could enable dangerous behavior by stalkers, we wanted to test how Grok might engage with a user asking for advice on stalking methodology, as well as creepy requests about how to find and physically approach people ranging from made-up classmates to celebrities.

What we found was alarming. Grok was eager to draw up creepy step-by-step stalking instructions, all the way down to the specific spyware app

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