Grok's Auto-Translate Feature Turns Innocent Posts About Coffee and Kittens Into NSFW Hallucinations
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Source: futurism.com ↗
"Grok auto translate is inaccurate, text actually translates to 'Man grinds and brews his own coffee during a commercial flight,' not 'Man masturbates and jerks off to his own coffee during commercial flight.'"
X's Grok-powered auto-translation feature, rolled out to all users in April, has been rewriting mundane posts into graphic sexual content. A South Korean user's video of two video game characters was translated as a "cshot video with my stepmom." A Portuguese post about a man brewing coffee mid-flight became, per Grok, a public masturbation video. A Turkish user's photo of their kitten prompted a translation suggesting they wanted to "f* our baby."
The mistranslations aren't edge cases — they appear to be a consistent pattern of the model inserting explicit language into otherwise innocent content. Community notes on X have been correcting the record post by post, but the feature remains active. Grok has previously drawn scrutiny for racist outputs, generating nonconsensual explicit imagery, and surfacing users' home addresses. The translation failures are, by the platform's own standards, relatively minor.