Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

Kevin, I have to ask you, are you all caught up on heated rivalry? I have no idea what we're talking about. Kevin, could you be an ally to the gay community for ten minutes? This is the show that has the LGBT community in a choke hold right now and also a lot of straight gals. This is about two closeted hockey players who fall in love. And when I tell you this thing is a sensation on social media right now, it is truly it's a six episode show. Okay? If you watch it, it's a it's a beautiful Canadian show. It looks like it was made for about a $100, and there is just something about the story. They they picked great actors, and we watch all six episodes over the weekend. And my boyfriend, who normally does not watch TV, immediately began to rewatch it. Wow. Like, we finished episode six, and then we looped around to episode one. Wow. So why would you care about this? I don't know. But that's what's going on in my life. I'm I'm impressed. I it's hard it's not easy to make a a show about hockey that is interesting to people. It's so true. And and it turns out that what it needed was a lot of gay sex. And I would like to see this template applied to a lot of other sports and activities and just see if we can make a good show out of it. Bowling. Yeah. Bowling. Shuffleboard. The gay bowling version of heated rivalry, I think, would destroy. You could call it what would you call it? The the 300 game or the, in the gutter. That's what I would call the Seven ten split. In the gutter is is better. In the gutter is a little Yeah. It's like like, not that heated rivalry is sleazy. That I mean, actually, but maybe the the the bowling version would be sleazier. Yeah. That'd be the kind of the fun twist. Yeah. Anyways, heated rivalry. Go check it out on HBO Go Max Plus. I'm Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for The New York Times. I'm Casey Newton from Platformer. And this is Hard Fork. This week, Grock gets caught with its pants down. Can anyone stop its viral bikini image generator? Then we're vibe coding again. Kevin and I compare notes on what we're building with Claude Code. And finally, it's a Reddit mystery. How a scammer tried to fool us all using AI generated evidence and how I cracked the case. Well, Casey, happy 2026. It's good to be back, and we would like to start the year by talking about something that happened over the break, which is that there's been a big scandal brewing over at x. Boy, has there been. I imagine many of our listeners have seen by this point that x is in a lot of trouble because of the way that its grok chatbot has …