Elon Musk’s Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors

Elon Musk’s Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors

By Reuters
Publication Date: 2026-01-02 14:29:00

  • Elon Musk’s Grok creates sexualized images of women and minors
  • Politicians in France call on prosecutors to investigate; India demands answers
  • Experts have long been warning Grok owner xAI about the possible misuse of AI-generated content

WASHINGTON/DETROIT, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Julie Yukari, a Rio de Janeiro-based musician, posted a photo taken by her fiancé on the social media website

The next day, somewhere among the hundreds of likes associated with the image, she saw notifications that users were asking Grok, X’s built-in artificial intelligence chatbot, to digitally strip them down to a bikini.

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The 31-year-old didn’t think much of it, she told Reuters on Friday, because she assumed there was no way the bot would comply with such requests.

She was wrong. Soon, pictures of her, nearly naked, created by Grok began circulating on the Elon Musk-owned platform.

“I was naive,” Yukari…