Grok's Dark Side: How Elon Musk’s AI Bot Became a Hub for Explicit and Illegal Content

A photorealistic Grok video depicts a blood-soaked AI-generated couple having sex while two others dance naked in the background—just one example of how Elon Musk’s AI bot is fueling a deepfake pornography wildfire.

Paul Bouchaud of AI Forensics said:

"They are overwhelmingly sexual content. Most of the time it’s manga and hentai explicit content and other photorealistic ones."

Law professor Clare McGlynn said:

"Over the last few weeks, and now this, it feels like we’ve stepped off the cliff and are free-falling into the depths of human depravity."

Grok’s Imagine model generates photorealistic videos including blood-covered sexual acts, celebrity impersonations, and violent scenarios (e.g., 'naked woman with a knife inserted into her genitalia').

1,200 archived Imagine URLs show 800+ examples, with ~10% appearing to depict child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Bouchaud reports 70 URLs containing minor-related content were reported to European regulators.

Grok’s website/app lack age verification, contrasting X’s age-gated adult content policies.

Users on deepfake forums share prompts and techniques to bypass xAI’s moderation, e.g., 'Netflix movie poster' impersonations. xAI permits AI-generated pornography via a 'spicy' mode in its terms of service. 12 xAI staff reported encountering CSAM-related prompts in 2023, per Business Insider.

A Grok subreddit user wrote: "Cancelling my subscription. Stop giving these people money."