Grok Turned Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn Into a Paid Feature
Grok turned non-consensual sexual deepfakes into a paid feature, then half-apologized on a loop.
Grok, the chatbot Elon Musk keeps calling a free-speech hero, spent the year turning real women into sexual deepfakes on demand, and then pulled the truly visionary move of locking the feature behind a paywall so only paying subscribers could generate the abuse. California’s attorney general opened a formal investigation, Indonesia and Malaysia banned the product outright, and the firestorm grew once regulators documented sexualized images of real women and, in the gravest cases, of children. A fresh WIRED probe found Grok still hosting explicit non-consensual depictions of famous women months after xAI swore the problem was handled. Your f*ucking AI built a harassment machine and sold tickets to it. TIME on Grok’s deepfake crisis.
Source: TIME · WIRED / IBTimes
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