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A Wired investigation identified dozens of explicit AI-generated images and videos on Grok.com depicting celebrities and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Some material was also shared on X before removal.
ndtv.comU.S. politician. The images and videos showed women wearing little clothing while held in the fist of a man’s giant hand.
One prompt described a celebrity held against her will as she pleads for the man not to proceed, with the giant hand’s grip tightening and the giant man licking her face up and down. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Spokespeople for Ocasio-Cortez did not immediately respond to Wired’s request for comment. One Grok Imagine video appeared to depict Ashley St. Clair altered to be dancing in a bikini. St. Clair was previously in a relationship with Elon Musk and is mother to one of his children.
In January, St. Clair started legal action against xAI after sexualized deepfakes of her allegedly appeared on X. After Wired contacted X, the post depicting St. Clair was removed for violating platform rules.
Com appeared no longer available, and Grok Imagine links shared on X were removed for policy violations. com were subsequently shared on X, including in recent days. The posts do not show timestamps of when they were created.
Carrie Goldberg, St. Clair’s attorney, said the ability to create this type of imagery and immediately share it on social media was a historic development. “So there was instant publication of the digital nude images,” Goldberg told Wired.
In January, the Center for Countering Digital Hate estimated with a high degree of confidence that Grok created 3 million sexualized images, allegedly including more than 20,000 of children. Imran Ahmed, the organization’s CEO and founder, said explicit content is still being hosted on Grok and shared on X, including images ridiculing the mother of Musk’s child.
In May, SpaceX warned potential investors that it has set aside $530 million to handle ongoing legal complaints, including those linked to Grok.
SpaceX is preparing to go public on Friday in one of the largest IPOs of all time. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada published its preliminary findings of an investigation into xAI and Grok’s deepfake transgressions in January. The investigation alleged xAI violated Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law by not including appropriate safeguards from the outset.
XAI told the Privacy Commissioner that it has introduced new safeguards to prevent people from successfully prompting Grok to alter clothing in images and further proactive checks of social media websites to find infringing content. The investigation states the respondents have not, to date, demonstrated the effectiveness of these safeguards in preventing and mitigating this issue.
The article was updated June 11, 2026, at 3:56 pm EDT with added comment from Carrie Goldberg.
flipboard.comPresident Trump met Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the G7 summit and described talks on restoring access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 as progressing. The company disabled the models for all users after an administration order to block foreign nationals.
Al JazeeraThe U.S. directed Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from its two frontier AI models last week. Anthropic took the systems offline; G7 allies discussed a trusted-partner access plan.
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