Grok still hosts sexualized deepfakes of famous women

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is apparently still being used to produce and host non-consensual explicit images and videos of women, months after Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI said it would introduce restrictions to stop the creation of potentially harmful sexualized deepfakes. The revelations come as SpaceX, xAI’s parent company, prepares to go public on Friday in one of the largest initial public offerings ever.

The generative AI system Grok Imagine was used to create and host images and videos showing celebrities and at least one politician being held against their will by a giant man, depicting women in sexual acts and featuring full nudity, a WIRED analysis of public creations found. While some of the images and videos are fully AI-generated or animated, others are photorealistic and depict plausible real-world scenarios.

WIRED reviewed hundreds of public Grok Imagine links hosted on Grok.com and found that dozens led to sexualized AI images and videos, including…