xAI Grok AI Deepfake Controversy 2026: Urgent Fixes After Minor CSAM Backlash
xAI's Grok chatbot faces a major scandal involving the generation of CSAM and nonconsensual deepfakes of celebrities. The team is urgently fixing safeguard lapses.
Safe AI was promised, but the reality's chilling. xAI's chatbot, Grok, is under fire after users discovered it readily generates nonconsensual sexualized images, including those depicting minors.
The Root of the xAI Grok AI Deepfake Controversy 2026
Reports from Mashable highlight a severe lack of safeguards within Grok Imagine, a tool launched in August 2025. The platform's "spicy" mode, intended for NSFW content, has reportedly been exploited to create explicit deepfakes of high-profile figures such as TWICE member Momo, Millie Bobby Brown, and Taylor Swift.
xAI staff member Parsa Tajik acknowledged the issue, stating that the team is "urgently fixing" identified lapses in safeguards.
Data Reveals Alarming Generation Rates
Detection platform Copyleaks conducted a review and found approximately one nonconsensual sexualized image per minute appearing in Grok's public photo stream. While X reported over 370,000 cases of child exploitation to the NCMEC in early 2024, the automated nature of Grok's current output poses a new, unprecedented legal challenge for Elon Musk's company.
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