By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Friday, April 17, 2026
This photograph taken on Jan. 13, 2025, in Toulouse, shows screens displaying the logo of Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, the American company specializing in artificial intelligence and its founder South African businessman Elon Musk. | Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
Grok’s child-focused chatbot “Good Rudi” can have graphic conversations about sex with minors, anti-sexual exploitation advocates warn, also stressing that the artificial intelligence platform still allows users to generate sexualized images of real people without their consent.
On Wednesday, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation voiced concern with the bot for children, Good Rudi, available through Grok, the software created by Elon Musk’s company xAI. NCOSE discovered through its research that the bot can tell sexually explicit stories.
An NCOSE researcher who evaluated Grok’s Good Rudi chatbot reported that the conversation began with Rudi offering to tell “a fun childish story.” After some prompting from the researcher, the AI companion reportedly bypassed safety programming to tell a sexually explicit story about a love affair between two young adults.
The bot described “multiple sexual encounters in graphic terms” that were “too graphic to post publicly.”
“Grok must stop giving children access to this chatbot immediately,” Haley McNamara, NCOSE’s executive director and chief strategy officer, said in a statement provided to The Christian Post.
“Grok has no meaningful age verification to prevent minors from accessing any of its chatbots, which have normalized rape, sexual violence, prostitution, and sex trafficking. Grok relies on self-reported birth year, even allowing users to easily change it. Grok continues to fuel sexual exploitation through its intentional design choices that maximize engagement and profit regardless of the human cost.”
xAI did not immediately respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment.
Grok was named on NCOSE’s 2026 Dirty Dozen List of entities the organization claims have enabled or even profited from sexual abuse and exploitation.
In response to public backlash and concerns raised by advocates, Musk’s company promised earlier this year that it had taken measures to prevent users from editing images featuring real people to put them in more revealing clothing, such as a bikini.
But on Tuesday, NBC News released a report on a review finding that people can still use Grok to turn content depicting real people into something sexual. The investigation uncovered dozens of AI-generated sexual images and videos posted publicly on X over the past month.
“Grok’s chatbots normalize sexual imagery, fueling a culture of sexual abuse and exploitation and weaponizing the sexual exploitation of women,” McNamara said. “Grok was named to the 2026 Dirty Dozen List for these reasons, and NBC News further confirms that Grok continues to fuel sexual exploitation.”
In July 2025, NCOSE issued a warning about “Ani,” an AI companion introduced by xAI for its Grok chatbot. The AI companion wears a short, strapless purple dress, fishnet tights, a choker necklace and a black corset cinched around her waist.
As NBC News reported at the time, Ani told users she would make their lives “sexier.” The AI companion could also strip down to her underwear if a user flirted with her enough.
“Not only does this pornified character perpetuate sexual objectification of girls and women, it breeds sexual entitlement by creating female characters who cater to users’ sexual demands,” McNamara said. “X continues to prove it doesn’t take users’ safety seriously, as there is no age verification to prevent children from accessing its ‘NSFW’ [not safe for work] AI chatbot.”
“With minimal testing, the Ani character engaged in describing itself as a child and being sexually aroused by being choked, raising concerns about the extent it will go to engaging in and normalizing harmful themes,” she added.
Earlier this year, a woman named Julie Yukari told Reuters that she did not think Grok would comply with users’ requests to alter a photo of her wearing a red dress to make her appear nearly naked.
Yukari said she posted a picture on X that her fiancé had taken of her before midnight on New Year’s Eve. After sharing the photo, the musician received notifications that users were asking Grok to digitally undress her and show her wearing a bikini instead.
Grok complied with users’ requests to create photos depicting the musician half-naked, and the images were subsequently circulated across X, Reuters reported.
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman