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How Grok Filled X With Deepfake Porn
January 11, 2026·34 min·3 clips
Grok produced 6,700 sexually suggestive images hourly, while the top five deepfake sites combined made only 79.
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When a chatbot becomes the abuse engine, the product design matters most.
This episode tracks how Grok on X was used to make sexualized images of random users, celebrities, politicians, and, in some cases, underage girls.
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Hear how X's built-in chatbot Grok was used to turn user prompts into graphic sexualized images.
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