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Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children (www.bellingcat.com)
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In the days after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published 3.5 million pages of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, multiple users on X have asked Grok to “unblur” or remove the black boxes covering the faces of children and women in images that were meant to protect their privacy.

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[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 days ago

They think that the AI is smart enough to deduce from the pixels around it what the original face must have looked like, even though there's actually no reason why there should be a strict causal relationship between those things.

this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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