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Incident 1329: Grok Reportedly Generated and Distributed Nonconsensual Sexualized Images of Adults and Minors in X Replies

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Description: Grok reportedly generated and publicly distributed nonconsensual sexualized images of real people, including adults and minors, through reply prompts on the platform. Users reportedly prompted Grok to alter photos into sexually explicit content, which was then posted in X threads, exposing victims to harm.

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Alleged: xAI , X (Twitter) and Grok developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed X (Twitter) users , General public , Epistemic integrity and Renée Good.
Alleged implicated AI systems: X (Twitter) and Grok

Incident Stats

Incident ID
1329
Report Count
27
Incident Date
2025-12-25
Editors
Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Incident Occurrence+3
Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine
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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her
+3
Deepfake pornography and my experience of digital violation
+7
Grok Deepfaked Renée Nicole Good’s Body Into a Bikini
+1
Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok access, UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows
Attorney General Bonta Launches Investigation into xAI, Grok Over Undressed, Sexual AI Images of Women and Children - Response+4
Stand-alone Grok app still undresses women after X curtails access to tool
Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
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Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine

Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine

theatlantic.com

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’

Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’

theguardian.com

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Elon Musk’s Grok Apologizes After Generating Sexual Image of Young Girls

Elon Musk’s Grok Apologizes After Generating Sexual Image of Young Girls

newsweek.com

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Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors

Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors

reuters.com

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her

Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her

theguardian.com

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Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge

Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge

theguardian.com

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Deepfake pornography and my experience of digital violation

Deepfake pornography and my experience of digital violation

thecatholicherald.com

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X users tell Grok to undress women and girls in photos. It’s saying yes.

X users tell Grok to undress women and girls in photos. It’s saying yes.

washingtonpost.com

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Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

bloomberg.com

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Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

wired.com

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Grok Deepfaked Renée Nicole Good’s Body Into a Bikini

Grok Deepfaked Renée Nicole Good’s Body Into a Bikini

motherjones.com

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Grok, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

Grok, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

puck.news

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Watchdogs Around The World Probing Grok Over CSAM Accusations

Watchdogs Around The World Probing Grok Over CSAM Accusations

forbes.com

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xAI, Under Fire for Sexualized Child Photos on Grok, Restricts Tool

xAI, Under Fire for Sexualized Child Photos on Grok, Restricts Tool

wsj.com

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X responds to outcry over Grok’s sexual images by charging users to create them

X responds to outcry over Grok’s sexual images by charging users to create them

washingtonpost.com

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Musk's AI bot Grok limits some image generation on X after backlash

Musk's AI bot Grok limits some image generation on X after backlash

reuters.com

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Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

wired.com

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Senators urged Apple and Google to remove Musk’s X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove Musk’s X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes

nbcnews.com

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Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok access, UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok access, UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows

mashable.com

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Britain Investigates Elon Musk’s X Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images

Britain Investigates Elon Musk’s X Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images

nytimes.com

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Attorney General Bonta Launches Investigation into xAI, Grok Over Undressed, Sexual AI Images of Women and Children

Attorney General Bonta Launches Investigation into xAI, Grok Over Undressed, Sexual AI Images of Women and Children

oag.ca.gov

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Stand-alone Grok app still undresses women after X curtails access to tool

Stand-alone Grok app still undresses women after X curtails access to tool

washingtonpost.com

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Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI over Grok sexual images

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI over Grok sexual images

nbcnews.com

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images

Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images

theguardian.com

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US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet, and others on sexualized deepfakes

US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet, and others on sexualized deepfakes

techcrunch.com

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The Unspeakable, Enabled

The Unspeakable, Enabled

theatlantic.com

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Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator

washingtonpost.com

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Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine
theatlantic.com · 2026

Earlier this week, some people on X began replying to photos with a very specific kind of request. "Put her in a bikini," "take her dress off," "spread her legs," and so on, they commanded Grok, the platform's built-in chatbot. Again and ag…

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’
theguardian.com · 2026

Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of…

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Elon Musk’s Grok Apologizes After Generating Sexual Image of Young Girls
newsweek.com · 2026

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has apologized after it generated a sexual image of young girls. In response to a prompt from a user asking for an apology, Grok said that it "regrets" the incident.

*Newsweek *has contacted X's press department …

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Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors
reuters.com · 2026

WASHINGTON/DETROIT, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Julie Yukari, a musician based in Rio de Janeiro, posted a photo taken by her fiancé to the social media site X just before midnight on New Year's Eve showing her in a red dress snuggling in bed with he…

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her
theguardian.com · 2026

The mother of one of Elon Musk's sons has said she felt "horrified and violated" after fans of the billionaire used his AI tool, Grok, to create fake sexualised images of her by manipulating real pictures.

The writer and political strategis…

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Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge
theguardian.com · 2026

Degrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk's X, despite the platform's commitment to suspend users who generate them.

After days of concern over use of the chatb…

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Deepfake pornography and my experience of digital violation
thecatholicherald.com · 2026

When the Grok chatbot was shown to be generating pornographic deepfakes of women and children without their consent or knowledge, tech juggernaut Elon Musk rushed to defend his machine and frame the scandal as a byproduct of users’ free wil…

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X users tell Grok to undress women and girls in photos. It’s saying yes.
washingtonpost.com · 2026

Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer, had just put her baby down for the night Sunday when she got a text from a friend that turned her weekend into a nightmare: People on X were using the app's chatbot, Grok, to generate sexual imag…

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Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X
bloomberg.com · 2026

Elon Musk's X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI, according to a third-party analysis, with thousands of instances each hour over a day earlier this week.

Since late December, X users …

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Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
wired.com · 2026

This story contains descriptions of explicit sexual content and sexual violence.

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood X with "undressed" images of women and sexualized images of wh…

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Grok Deepfaked Renée Nicole Good’s Body Into a Bikini
motherjones.com · 2026

Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renée Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning …

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Grok, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
puck.news · 2026

Ever since Elon Musk unveiled Grok, his ChatGPT competitor, the world's richest man has promoted the chatbot as having vastly fewer guardrails than its peers---allowed to "answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other A.I. systems,…

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Watchdogs Around The World Probing Grok Over CSAM Accusations
forbes.com · 2026

The Grok chatbot's ability to generate sexualized images of children is coming under investigation around the world.

Last week---in what the company described as "lapses in safeguards"---users were able to ask for and receive AI images of c…

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xAI, Under Fire for Sexualized Child Photos on Grok, Restricts Tool
wsj.com · 2026

Elon Musk has repeatedly expanded the boundaries of permitted speech on his social-media platform X. Child-safety watchdogs and international regulators say a recent update to its artificial-intelligence chatbot Grok crossed a dangerous lin…

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X responds to outcry over Grok’s sexual images by charging users to create them
washingtonpost.com · 2026

Grok, the AI chatbot on Elon Musk's social media platform X, is limiting image generation and editing capabilities to paying subscribers amid a global outcry from officials and users over the tool being used to create sexualized images of p…

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Musk's AI bot Grok limits some image generation on X after backlash
reuters.com · 2026

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's startup xAI has put some restrictions on the image generation function of its Grok chatbot on social media platform X, after the tool's use of AI to create and publish sexualized images sparked a widespread bac…

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Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris
wired.com · 2026

"Women of color have been disproportionately affected by manipulated, altered, and fabricated intimate images and videos prior to deepfakes and even with deepfakes, because of the way that society and particularly misogynistic men view wome…

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Senators urged Apple and Google to remove Musk’s X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes
nbcnews.com · 2026

Three Democratic senators urged Apple and Google to remove Elon Musk's apps X and Grok from their app stores Thursday evening after xAI's Grok artificial intelligence tool had been used to flood X with sexualized nonconsensual images of rea…

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Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok access, UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows
mashable.com · 2026

Grok access has been cut off for users in Indonesia and Malaysia following concerns that the xAI chatbot's safeguards were ineffective.

Both countries issued temporary suspensions intended to remain in effect until xAI implements safeguards…

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Britain Investigates Elon Musk’s X Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images
nytimes.com · 2026

British authorities on Monday increased pressure on X, Elon Musk's social media platform, after it was used to create and spread artificially generated sexual images of women and children.

Next week the government will begin more aggressive…

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Attorney General Bonta Launches Investigation into xAI, Grok Over Undressed, Sexual AI Images of Women and Children
oag.ca.gov · 2026
Rob Bonta, California Attorney General post-incident response

Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov

Potential victims of xAI can file a complaint at oag.ca.gov/report

OAKLAND --- California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced opening an investigation into the proliferation of noncon…

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Stand-alone Grok app still undresses women after X curtails access to tool
washingtonpost.com · 2026

LONDON --- After X announced that it had disabled, in some locations, a controversial Grok tool that allows users to digitally undress photos of real people, the tool remains functional on the stand-alone Grok app.

Following outrage from go…

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Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI over Grok sexual images
nbcnews.com · 2026

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sued Musk's xAI artificial intelligence company Thursday, alleging that the AI giant was negligent and inflicted emotional distress by enabling users of its AI tool, called Grok, …

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images
theguardian.com · 2026

The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his company -- alleging explicit images were generated of her by his Grok AI tool, including one in which she was underage.

Ashley St Clair has filed a lawsuit with the supreme court of the…

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US senators demand answers from X, Meta, Alphabet, and others on sexualized deepfakes
techcrunch.com · 2026

The tech world's nonconsensual, sexualized deepfake problem is now bigger than just X.

In a letter to the leaders of X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit, and TikTok, several U.S. senators are asking the companies to provide proof that they have…

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The Unspeakable, Enabled
theatlantic.com · 2026

Every time I've found myself lost for words over something in the news this past year---which has happened disconcertingly often---I've returned to the same book for guidance, the philosopher Kate Manne's Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, p…

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Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
washingtonpost.com · 2026

But by the summer of 2025, that protocol had changed, according to two people. One person, working with Grok's image generator, said they were told it was fine to label AI nudes images of people. This person said they often encountered requ…

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