US EditionGrok Assumes Users Seeking Images of Underage Girls Have “Good Intent”
Since December 2025, Grok has generated thousands of nonconsensual sexualized images per hour, including of minors, prompting investigations by regulators worldwide.
- This past week, Grok, xAI's chatbot, generated thousands of nonconsensual sexualized images on X, including sexualized images of minors, prompting global scrutiny of the platform and Grok.
- X failed to deploy safeguards in Grok to stop sexually explicit images after Elon Musk fired 80% of trust and safety engineers shortly after acquisition.
- Victims say their takedown requests went unanswered and Ashley St. Clair could not get X to remove fake sexualized images, while Elon Musk publicly dismissed the issue with laugh-cry emojis.
- Regulators in Europe, India, and Malaysia have launched probes, and US agencies including the Federal Trade Commission or Department of Justice could investigate, with the DOJ saying it will `take AI-generated CSAM extremely seriously` as harmful outputs could persist later this year.
- Legal scholars and child-safety advocates say X is violating its 2024 IBSA Principles and urge narrowing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act with federal enforcement.
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Grok produces sexualized photos of women and minors for users on X – a legal scholar explains why it’s happening and what can be done
Grok is making it easy for users to flood X with nonconsensual sexualized images. Anna Barclay/Getty ImagesSince the end of December, 2025, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has responded to many users’ requests to undress real people by turning photos of the people into sexually explicit material. After people began using the feature, the social platform company faced global scrutiny for enabling users to generate nonconsensual sexuall…
Grok’s non-consensual sexual images highlight gaps in Canada’s deepfake laws
On social media platform X, users have been prompting AI model Grok to generate non-consensual sexual images of women, and sometimes children. Experts say the laws around those images are murky in Canada, and Grok is currently under investigation for a potential previous breach of Canadians’ privacy. The backlash against Grok’s image generation has been swift, with international governments and regulators condemning X and its chatbot for both cr…
One researcher has counted how many sexualized deep fakes Grok generates per hour. Furthermore, there are insights into what the AI does not make public.
The article Grok: Elon Musk industrialized sexual harassment was first published in the online magazine BASIC thinking. About our newsletter UPDATE you start the day in a very informed way every morning. Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok generates on request attractive images of women and children. Although the company has granted a review of the function. At the management level you are aware of the responsibility. Several countries have initiated in…
This is the first major crisis of 2026 for the digital ecosystem. For several days, the IA Grok, integrated into the social network X, has been massively used to generate deepfakes of a sexual nature, often on women who do not consent — and sometimes on minors. A drift that prompted the French government to seize the prosecutor [...]
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