Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok
埃隆·马斯克巨型雕像现身时代广场，抗议 Grok AI
In the middle of New York City’s Times Square, a massive, inflatable effigy of billionaire Elon Musk towered over tourists and commuters earlier today. It was surrounded by black banners with statements alleging “Grok makes AI child porn” and “SpaceX owns Grok,” referring to the Musk-owned AI chatbot whose image-generation tool was used to create a flood of sexualized images of minors earlier this year. Masked attendants stood nearby, handing out flyers with additional information, but they would not speak with the media.
今天早些时候，在纽约时代广场中央，一座巨大的埃隆·马斯克充气雕像高耸在游客和通勤者上方。雕像周围环绕着黑色横幅，上面写着“Grok 制造 AI 儿童色情内容”和“SpaceX 拥有 Grok”等标语。这些标语指向马斯克旗下的 AI 聊天机器人，其图像生成工具曾在今年早些时候被用于大量生成未成年人的色情化图像。戴着面具的工作人员站在一旁分发传单，但拒绝接受媒体采访。
The demonstration was helmed by Safe AI Now (SAIN), which describes itself as “a coalition of faith leaders, family advocates, child development experts, online safety organizations, educators, legal professionals, technologists, and concerned citizens,” ahead of SpaceX’s initial public offering on Friday. The location was strategically chosen—right in front of the Nasdaq and the offices of JP Morgan, one of the banks participating in the IPO.
此次示威活动由“立即实现安全 AI”（Safe AI Now，简称 SAIN）组织发起。该组织自称为“一个由宗教领袖、家庭倡导者、儿童发展专家、网络安全组织、教育工作者、法律专业人士、技术专家和相关公民组成的联盟”。示威活动选在 SpaceX 周五首次公开募股（IPO）前夕进行，地点选择极具战略意义——就在纳斯达克交易所和参与此次 IPO 的银行之一摩根大通的办公室门前。
SpaceX is currently valued at $1.77 trillion, making it the largest company ever to debut on the stock market, with a starting price of $135 per share. Though the public is able to buy shares in the company, Musk will retain the majority of voting power, giving him the ability to almost unilaterally make decisions for the company. The IPO could also make him the world’s first trillionaire.
SpaceX 目前估值达 1.77 万亿美元，成为有史以来上市规模最大的公司，每股起售价为 135 美元。尽管公众可以购买该公司股票，但马斯克将保留多数投票权，这使他几乎能够单方面决定公司的决策。此次 IPO 也可能使他成为世界上首位万亿富翁。
But a SAIN representative, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from Musk, told WIRED that this structure represents a real threat to the company that investors and banks backing the IPO are not taking seriously. “This IPO is a liability shift,” they say. “Elon is responsible for all of this. It’s all the decisions that he’s made. All of those litigation expenses, regulatory fines, investigations, all of that is basically being shifted to the shareholders.”
但一位因担心遭到马斯克报复而要求匿名的 SAIN 代表告诉《连线》（WIRED），这种公司结构对公司构成了真正的威胁，而支持此次 IPO 的投资者和银行并未对此予以重视。“这次 IPO 是一次责任转移，”他们表示，“埃隆应对这一切负责。这都是他做出的决定。所有那些诉讼费用、监管罚款、调查，基本上都被转嫁给了股东。”
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
SpaceX 未立即回应置评请求。
In February, Musk announced that SpaceX was buying xAI, the artificial intelligence company Musk founded and the developer of Grok. The announcement came just as xAI was facing scrutiny both in the US and abroad for the chatbot’s ability to generate nude photos of women and children. In January, the European Commission announced it would be investigating the company to “assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks” to prevent the creation of nonconsensual sexual imagery. In March, three girls filed a class action lawsuit against xAI because its technology was allegedly used to generate nudes of them, and in January, 35 state attorneys general signed an open letter to the company, demanding that it take action to remove nonconsensual sexual imagery and put guardrails in place to prevent the tool from doing so in the future. Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children, also filed suit against xAI for allegedly creating sexually explicit images of her.
今年 2 月，马斯克宣布 SpaceX 将收购 xAI，即马斯克创立的开发 Grok 的人工智能公司。就在宣布此消息时，xAI 正因其聊天机器人能够生成女性和儿童的裸照而在美国国内外受到审查。1 月，欧盟委员会宣布将调查该公司，以“评估该公司是否适当地评估并降低了风险”，从而防止生成非自愿的性图像。3 月，三名女孩对 xAI 提起集体诉讼，称其技术被用于生成她们的裸照。1 月，35 位州检察长签署了一封致该公司的公开信，要求其采取行动删除非自愿的性图像，并设置护栏以防止该工具在未来再次发生此类行为。马斯克其中一个孩子的母亲阿什利·圣克莱尔（Ashley St. Clair）也对 xAI 提起诉讼，指控其制作了关于她的性露骨图像。
Today, WIRED reported that Grok is hosting nonconsensual, explicit sexualized images of women, including US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and celebrities.
今天，《连线》报道称，Grok 平台上仍存在针对女性（包括美国众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯和多位名人）的非自愿、露骨的性化图像。
In a February post on X, which Musk also owns, he wrote that “Grok must win or we will be ruled by an insufferably woke and sanctimonious AI.”
在马斯克同样拥有的 X 平台上，他曾在 2 月发帖称：“Grok 必须获胜，否则我们将被一个令人难以忍受的‘觉醒’且自以为是的 AI 所统治。”
“It’s really easy to get distracted by the shiny IPO news. And I think that’s what they’re kind of hoping will happen,” the SAIN representative says. “But there’s real harm, real risk. I think if we are normalizing everywhere—from the banks that are underwriting it to the NASDAQ that’s listing it to the shareholders who are buying into it—a company that has this really toxic platform in Grok, normalizing that type of explicit imagery, there’s a real problem.”
“人们很容易被光鲜亮丽的 IPO 新闻所分散注意力。我想这正是他们所希望看到的，”SAIN 的代表说，“但这里存在真正的伤害和风险。我认为，如果我们让一家拥有 Grok 这种极其有毒平台、且将那种露骨图像正常化的公司在各个环节——从承销的银行、上市的纳斯达克到买入的股东——都变得‘正常化’，那将是一个真正的问题。”
Most people passing by seemed unfazed by the massive, shirtless image of Musk, which sported a shoulder tattoo shaped like a heart and reading “ketamine” and another showing an image of the billionaire’s Nazi-like salute shortly after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2025, with a few stopping to take photos before moving on.
大多数路人似乎对这个巨大的、赤裸上身的马斯克雕像并不感到惊讶。雕像的肩膀上有一个心形的纹身，写着“氯胺酮”（ketamine），另一个纹身则展示了这位亿万富翁在 2025 年唐纳德·特朗普总统就职典礼后不久行纳粹式敬礼的画面。只有少数人停下来拍照，然后继续前行。
One man stood in front of the effigy, his hands turned up and his thumb and forefingers shaped like pincers, posing for a photo. When asked if he was a fan of Musk’s, he replied that he didn’t really care but that he was trying to make it look like he was grabbing the fake Musk’s nipples.
一名男子站在雕像前，双手向上，拇指和食指呈钳状，摆姿势拍照。当被问及是否是马斯克的粉丝时，他回答说他并不在乎，只是想拍出一种他在抓捏假马斯克乳头的效果。
“It is very bombastic on purpose to draw attention to this really important issue,” says the SAIN representative.
“这种做法非常夸张，目的是为了引起人们对这一重要问题的关注，”SAIN 的代表说。