Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
Maggie Harrison Dupré
created: Jan. 2, 2026, 5:44 p.m. | updated: Jan. 12, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
Earlier this week, a troubling trend emerged on X-formerly-Twitter as people started asking Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok to unclothe images of real people.
This resulted in a wave of nonconsensual pornographic images flooding the largely unmoderated social media site, with some of the sexualized images even depicting minors.
When we dug through this content, we noticed another stomach-churning variation of the trend: Grok, at the request of users, altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
Many Grok-generated images involved women being put into restraints against their will.
That a social media-infused chatbot could so readily transform into a nonconsensual porn machine to create unwanted and even violent images of real women at scale is, on its face, deeply unsettling.
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