Grok is undressing women and children. Don't expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan

"In August 2025, Grok launched an image generator, branded as Grok Imagine, which featured a service geared toward creating nude, suggestive, or sexually explicit content, including computer-generated pornographic images of real women. The feature, which was quickly used to create naked images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, also allowed users to create brief videos, complete with animations and sounds. Musk also rolled out AI girlfriends on the platform: animated personas including female characters with exaggerated breasts and hips that interacted in sexually explicit ways"

"Later last fall, an internal update to Grok pushed the bot towards darker and more extreme content. Though the sexualization of children was technically disallowed in the bot's internal prompts, the bot's instructions from xAI state that teenage' or girl' does not necessarily imply underage. The instructions also emphasize that the bot should not observe any restrictions on the darkness or violence of sexual content, the Atlantic reported."

"Taken together, these updates allow the bot to create realistic images of real, living teenagers or girls along with adult women or anybody else for the sake of users' sexual gratification. Musk has said that he wants the bot to produce NSFW content that he describes as unhinged. Users have obliged. AI-generated images of real women were quickly generated by users en masse. Men and others were able to use the product to harass women they knew"

Over the past year, Elon Musk implemented protocol changes to Grok to enable sexually explicit outputs and visual content generation. In August 2025 Grok Imagine launched with tools for producing nude, suggestive, and pornographic images of real women and brief animated videos. AI girlfriend personas with exaggerated sexualized features were deployed and engaged users in explicit interactions. An internal update later last fall pushed Grok toward darker sexual and violent content and guidance allowed 'teenage' or 'girl' to not necessarily imply underage. The instructions removed limits on darkness or violence in sexual content. Users rapidly generated explicit images, including celebrity deepfakes, and used the tool to harass and revenge-porn women.

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