Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
January 9, 2026
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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Casual tech news podcast chat with hosts bantering on pop culture, deep dives into AI scandals, personal experiments, and investigative journalism; includes a guest interview.
- The Key Players:
- Hosts: Kevin Roose (NYT tech columnist) and Casey Newton (Platformer newsletter); sharp chemistry blending humor, outrage, and geeky excitement over AI tools.
- Guest: Kate Conger (NYT reporter), expert on Grok's scandals, sharing victim stories and insider reporting.
- The Vibe: Fun and irreverent banter mixed with intense outrage over ethics, excited empowerment from AI coding, and triumphant sleuthing; educational yet highly entertaining.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Kate Conger**
- 2 (03:06) **Grok's Nudify Image Scandal**
- 3 (10:56) **Kate Conger on Grok Victims and X Response**
- 4 (31:04) **Vibe Coding with Claude Code**
- 5 (58:37) **Reddit Food Delivery Hoax Investigation**
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Show Notes
Users of X are asking the platform’s built-in A.I. chatbot, Grok, to remove clothing from images of celebrities and everyday people. We talk with the New York Times reporter Kate Conger about how some of the targets of this sexual harassment, including children and their families, are responding, and whether anyone will take action to stop it. Then, we recap a holiday break spent experimenting with Claude Code. We unveil what we built, how we did it and why the tool’s dramatic improvement could be scary for society. And finally, Casey debunks a viral Reddit post that accuses the food delivery industry of shocking exploitation. We explain how a scammer tried to fool us all using AI-generated evidence.
Guests:
- Kate Conger, New York Times tech reporter covering X.
Additional Reading:
- Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage
- Debunking the A.I. Food Delivery Hoax That Fooled Reddit
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