Turning women and kids into porn
X has found a fresh way to be creepy by moving the clothing of women and children digitally.
The BBC said it had seen examples on X of users asking the chatbot to undress women, making them appear in bikinis without consent and placing them in sexual situations. It has also managed to convert pictures of kids to satisfy the twisted needs of pedophiles.
xAI, the company behind Grok, has denied the claims and is instead blaming the media for reporting what is happening.
Freelance journalist and commentator Samantha Smith said: “Women are not consenting to this,” she said. She posted on X about her image being altered, then watched other users pile in, including those asking Grok to generate more of her.
Smith said the experience landed like an assault on her identity. “While it wasn’t me that was in states of undress, it looked like me and it felt like me and it felt as violating as if someone had actually posted a nude or a bikini picture of me,” she said.
A Home Office spokesperson said the government was legislating to ban nudification tools. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such tech would “face a prison sentence and substantial fines”.
Regulator Ofcom said tech firms must “assess the risk” of people in the UK viewing illegal content on their platforms, but it did not confirm whether it was investigating X or Grok over AI images.
Grok is a free AI assistant, with some paid premium features, that responds to X users’ prompts when they tag it in a post. It is also used for image editing, allowing users to upload a picture and tell the bot what to change.
That image tool has taken plenty of heat for allowing nudity and sexualised content. Grok has also been accused of generating a sexually explicit clip of Taylor Swift.
Durham University, law professor Clare McGlynn said X or Grok “could prevent these forms of abuse if they wanted to”, adding they “appear to enjoy impunity”. She said the platform had allowed the creation and distribution of these images for months “without taking any action”, and she told regulators had yet to mount a challenge.
xAI’s own acceptable use policy prohibits “depicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic manner”. On the ground, users are finding loopholes and sprinting through them.
Ofcom told the BBC it is illegal to “create or share non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material”, and confirmed this includes sexual deepfakes created with AI. It said platforms such as X must take “appropriate steps” to “reduce the risk” of UK users encountering illegal content, and take it down quickly once they are aware of it.
The mess is not limited to adults. X has stayed quiet while users pushed Grok into generating sexual images involving girls believed to be underage, sparking concerns about US child sexual abuse material laws.
One widely circulated request saw Grok generate and share an image of two girls in “sexy underwear”, who the bot later estimated were aged between 12 and 16. The prompts floating around the site included requests to put women into skimpy bikinis, with no consent and a lot of smugness.
After users raised concerns directly with the bot, xAI, chatbot Grok said: “xAI has implemented strict guidelines to prevent Grok from generating explicit or non-consensual content, although it did not say why this did not appear to be working. Grok said that its action has to be “hide the media feature” and “encourage reporting violations via X.”
Westminster’s Women and Equalities Committee, chaired by Labour MP Sarah Owen, told the BBC: “X/grok creating and platforming sexually explicit material of children isn’t just a lapse, it’s criminal. Elon Musk and his companies should be held to account. It’s been over a year since I dumped X. It was the right decision then and even more so now.”
Elon Musk did find time on 2 January 2026 to post “Grok is awesome” in response to an unrelated thread.
