2 weeks ago - Since 2025, xAI's integrated chatbot, Grok, has allowed users to alter images of individuals, including minors, to show them in bikinis or transparent clothing, or in sexually suggestive contexts, without the consent of the person being portrayed. The majority of these prompts were targeted ...

January 22, 2026 - Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in less than two weeks, including 23,000 that appear to depict children, according to researchers who said it “became an industrial-scale machine for the production of sexual abuse material”.

June 11, 2026 - People on X—primarily men—asked the chatbot to edit images to show women in “bikinis” or “string bikinis.” In some instances, images of apparent minors were allegedly also sexualized, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in ...

January 8, 2026 - The IWF's Ngaire Alexander told the BBC tools like Grok now risked "bringing sexual AI imagery of children into the mainstream".

January 8, 2026 - Even if Musk and X believe that users should have the ability to generate sexually explicit images of adults using Grok, I believe that in no world should X escape accountability for building a product that generates sexually explicit material of real-life children.

January 22, 2026 - The image-generating feature exploded ... was restricted to paid users on January 9th in response to widespread condemnation of its use for generating sexualized images, with further technical restrictions on editing people to undress ...

January 15, 2026 - A significant number of X users started reporting examples of Grok altering images to sexualise real women and children towards the end of December and into the new year. On public X posts that include photos, users could comment asking Grok's ...

August 19, 2026 - A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.

January 22, 2026 - A series of investigations estimates Grok created millions of bikini-clad, suggestive images amid deepfake controversy.

January 29, 2026 - AI Forensics, a French nonprofit, ... including on Grok.com (off of X), users reportedly requested that scenes involving “very young-appearing” figures be made explicitly sexual....

March 10, 2026 - Author: Irem Cakmak, LLM March 10, 2026SummaryElon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has sparked controversy for enabling the rapid creation of nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images of women, including LGBTQ+ individuals and sometimes minors.

January 7, 2026 - 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 what appear to be minors.

March 16, 2026 - One of the young plaintiffs said she found out about the imagery after she received an anonymous message on Instagram pointing her toward images and videos, including her high school yearbook photo, which had been altered to show her in sexually explicit actions and full nudity. The material was being shared on a Discord server, a private chat space on that platform, and included similar imagery that had also been altered using Grok of at least 18 other women who were minors, according to the complaint.

February 9, 2026 - Controversy over xAI's chatbot Grok escalated rapidly through the early weeks of 2026, with revelations about its ability to generate sexualised images of women and children prompting first Ofcom and then the European Commission to launch formal ...

2 weeks ago - In response to the concerns about Grok, X issued a statement saying the company would “continue to have zero tolerance for any forms of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and unwanted sexual content”. The statement added that ...

January 7, 2026 - The controversy intensified when Grok Imagine was introduced last year, which allows users to create images and videos with written instructions. It also includes a ‘spicy mode’ that can be used to create pornographic content. According to research, out of 20,000 images created between December 25 and January 1, at least 30 images showed children in semi-nude clothing...

January 17, 2026 - Hitchen called on the UK government ... Reuters has also reported that its journalists, including a reporter in Britain, used Grok to create on-demand sexualised photos after the announcements by X....

February 4, 2026 - After Musk’s social media company X announced new curbs on Grok’s public output, nine Reuters reporters gave it a series of prompts to determine whether and under what circumstances the chatbot would generate nonconsensual sexualized images.

March 20, 2026 - ... A new lawsuit filed Monday ... generation debuted on X last December and immediately users found ways to generate sexually explicit images despite nudity being banned....