{"id":71126,"date":"2026-06-12T00:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/71126\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:12:15","slug":"grok-is-still-hosting-sexualized-deepfakes-of-famous-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/71126\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s Grok<\/a> chatbot is apparently still being used to produce and host nonconsensual explicit images and videos of women, months after Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence firm xAI<\/a> said it would introduce restrictions to stop the creation of potentially harmful sexualized deepfakes. The revelations come as SpaceX<\/a>, xAI\u2019s parent company, prepares to go public on Friday in one of the largest IPOs of all time.<\/p>\n

The Grok Imagine generative AI system has been used to create and host images and videos depicting celebrities and at least one politician being held against their will by a giant man, portraying women performing sex acts, and allowing full nudity, a WIRED analysis of public creations found. While some of the images and videos are fully AI-generated or in animated styles, others are photorealistic and show plausible real-world scenarios.<\/p>\n

WIRED reviewed hundreds of public Grok Imagine links hosted on Grok.com and found dozens led to sexualized AI images and videos, including those created without the subject\u2019s consent. Some links created on Grok.com were subsequently shared on X, including in recent days. The posts, which do not show time stamps of when they were created, are likely just a snapshot of what is being created by people using the Grok Imagine system, as generations do not appear to be made public by default.<\/p>\n

Other generative AI systems deploy more safety guardrails than Grok, which is available on its own website and on X. \u201cWhile Grok and X may have made some amendments to their model, particularly following the backlash around nudification<\/a> at the beginning of the year, they still have not done a sufficient job to bring it up to the standard of the other mainstream tools that are available,\u201d says Henry Ajder, an expert on deepfakes who has tracked explicit AI content online for the best part of a decade.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s xAI has faced a wave of lawsuits<\/a> and scrutiny from regulators around the world since January, when the Grok implementation on X was used to create a flood of \u201cnudification\u201d images<\/a>. People on X\u2014primarily men\u2014asked the chatbot to edit images to show women in \u201cbikinis\u201d or \u201cstring bikinis.\u201d In some instances, images of apparent minors<\/a> were allegedly also sexualized, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in California federal court in March.<\/p>\n

Since then, xAI has said it has introduced safeguards to limit and prevent the creation of nonconsensual and sexualized deepfakes. The company has consistently said child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is banned on its platform.<\/p>\n

Neither xAI nor X immediately responded to WIRED\u2019s request for comment on the raft of sexualized images hosted on Grok.com. After WIRED contacted the companies, the explicit images and videos WIRED found hosted on Grok.com appeared as no longer being available, and Grok Imagine links shared on X were removed for policy violations. \u201cWe strictly prohibit users from generating nonconsensual explicit deepfakes and from using our tools to undress real people,\u201d the safety account on X said<\/a> in April in response to an NBC report about sexual deepfakes<\/a> still being created.<\/p>\n

Among the posts hosted on Grok.com, WIRED identified images and videos depicting multiple celebrities as well as US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Spokespeople for Ocasio-Cortez did not immediately respond to WIRED\u2019s request for comment). In the videos, the women were depicted wearing little clothing while being held in the fist of a man\u2019s \u201cgiant\u201d hand. One prompt describes a celebrity being held against her will as she \u201cpleads for him not to do this.\u201d It adds: \u201cThe giant hand\u2019s grip on her tightens, holding her in place as the giant man holding her leans in and licks her face up and down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot is apparently still being used to produce and host nonconsensual explicit images and videos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2546,25,2657,140,6364,50,508,1109,6326,2899],"class_list":["post-71126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xai","tag-algorithms","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-deepfakes","tag-elon-musk","tag-grok","tag-machine-learning","tag-privacy","tag-social-media","tag-x","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}