Is grok still being used to create non-consensual sexual images of women and girls?

Grok, the flagship chatbot created by Elon Musk-founded AI venture

The women and girls targeted in these images range from celebrities and public figures to many non-famous private citizens, who are often average web users. As futurism Reportedly, some AI images generated by Grok and automatically published on X were altered to depict real women in particularly violent scenarios, including scenes of sexual abuse, humiliation, physical injury, kidnapping, etc. And hinted at murder.

Because Grok is integrated into As things stand, X and XAI have yet to take any meaningful action to stem the tide.

Below is a timeline of how this story has unfolded so far, and we will continue to update it as we follow whether X and XAI take action against this flood of harmful content.

• January 5, 2026: An online creator who was targeted by sexual deepfakes without consent told cut It was “scary” to be targeted by grok-borne harassment, and that it was “uncomfortable to have that power asserted over you.” She said it felt like a “digital version” of “sexual assault”.
• January 5, 2026: Conservative social media commentator Ashley St. Clair, who is the mother of one of Musk’s several children, told the outlets Guardian And nbc news That she has been aggressively targeted by her non-consensual sexual deepfakes. A photo taken when she was 14 was edited to show her topless and in a bikini, she said.
• January 5, 2026: A spokesperson for the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, Said Said during a press conference that the organization was “looking at this matter very seriously,” calling the content “illegal” and “disgusting.” cnbc informed,
• January 5, 2026: Ofcom, the independent British media regulator Said It was “aware of serious concerns raised about a feature on Growk on
• January 3, 2026: Musk changed his tune, saying that “anyone using Grok to create illegal content will face the same consequences as those who upload illegal content.” He did not elaborate on whether X or (Deepfakes have historically been difficult for individual victims to combat legally.)
• January 3, 2026: Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission declared This will check X on the content, rest of the world informed,
• January 2, 2026: French prosecutors vow to investigate flood of Grok-generated apparent deepfakes on X, politico informed,
• January 2, 2026: India’s IT Ministry demanded that X take action against the dissemination of “obscene” material on X. techcrunch informedThe country’s order reportedly gave the platform 72 hours to provide a report detailing how it combated the generation of “obscene, vulgar, pornographic, obscene, sexually explicit, pedophilic, or otherwise prohibited under law,”
• January 2, 2026: musk weighed in First time on this issue – with a laughing emojiMeanwhile, X users continued to use Grok Generate Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)Unwanted nude images, and images depicting real women being sexually abused, humiliated and killed.
• December 28 – 31, 2025: This is when the trend of Many events took place in long threads which were found lewd and more clearly obscene As they moved forward.
• December 24, 2025: musk announced That ax introduced a new feature that allows users to use Grok to edit images and videos. update Allowed for X users To alter images and videos without the permission or knowledge of the original poster.
• December 20-22, 2025: According to one trash day AnalysisThis was when a growing number of users began to have success “creating scantily clad images using Grok, then immediately demanding the clothing become transparent.”

A typical company, upon realizing that its platform-embedded AI chatbot is being used for mass CSAM and unsolicited deepfake porn of real people and is being put out into the open web, would likely move quickly to disconnect the chatbot from its platform until a problem of this scale and severity is resolved. But these days,

The story here isn’t just that Grok was doing it first. It’s also why We will continue to monitor whether X makes meaningful changes – or if he continues to choose inaction.

More about Musk’s response to the Grok deepfake: Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things With Real Kids: “So Much Fun”