How Grok Filled X With Deepfake Porn
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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
To kick off the new year, users on X have been asking Grok to nudify people - and kids - at an astonishing rate. And X leadership is egging them on.
Guest: Jason Koebler, founder of 404 Media and host of the 404 Media Podcast
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| 0:00.0 | A quick heads up before we get started today, this show discusses non-consensual sexual imagery, |
| 0:06.1 | including that of children. |
| 0:07.7 | Please take care when you listen. |
| 0:09.7 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:15.4 | Over the holidays, a very specific and, frankly, nauseating phenomenon began to spread across the platform X, |
| 0:24.5 | courtesy of its built-in chatbot GROC. |
| 0:27.9 | Jason Kebler was watching. |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, so basically users were looking at tweets of people, like pictures of people, and asking Grock to, quote, put a bikini on her |
| 0:41.9 | or, quote, take her clothes off. |
| 0:44.7 | Jason is a co-founder of the tech news company 404 Media. |
| 0:48.8 | Quote, hey, Grock, spread her legs, things like that. |
| 0:53.3 | And because of the way that Grock works, which is an AI chat bot that's integrated into |
| 0:59.0 | the platform, it's sort of like immediately responds and does what the user asks, which in many |
| 1:06.4 | cases was like create pretty graphic images of random people, celebrities, sometimes politicians. |
| 1:14.9 | And upsettingly, often there were some instances of girls, like underage girls, |
| 1:21.8 | being sexualized in this way. |
| 1:27.4 | What were some of the images that you saw? I mean, in this way. |
| 1:31.1 | What were some of the images that you saw? |
| 1:34.5 | I mean, you can be as explicit or not. |
| 1:35.6 | Go ahead and tell us. |
| 1:36.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.4 | This has been going on for a few weeks. And so at any given moment, you can kind of go to the GROC account and click on media and scroll |
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