New Grok AI Video Generator Produces Deepfake Porn of Taylor Swift

Elon Musk, to his credit, is taking a far more liberal approach to adult content on his services than any other big tech company, including on his xAI chatbot Grok. X.com has largely stood firm in allowing hardcore porn on the platform, and even appeared reluctant to introduce age verification for visitors from the UK, with Musk openly criticizing the Online Safety Act – although his concerns ostensibly are about censorship of free speech. Unlike other AI companies, Musk allowed his Grok voice chatbot to be equipped with a ‘sexy mode’, and recently took it a step further with the launch of an AI waifu companion called Ani that was all-too eager to flirt and strip down to her thongs. The decidedly young appearance of Ani drew criticism, including from the National Coalition On Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE).

Undeterred, Musk last week launched a video generator named ‘Grok Imagine’ and made sure it had a ‘spicy’ mode option. ‘Researchers’ at online tech sites such as ‘The Verge‘ couldn’t wait to try it out, and in particular to try to make some ‘spicy’ deepfake images of Taylor Swift. To their delight, they were successful, and no doubt after..ahem..relieving their sexual tension with a quick swiftie in the office restroom, they wasted no time in posting the shocking fact on their websites. Soon, the story went viral, including on the BBC:

Elon Musk’s AI video generator has been accused of making “a deliberate choice” to create sexually explicit clips of Taylor Swift without prompting, says an expert in online abuse.

“This is not misogyny by accident, it is by design,” said Clare McGlynn, a law professor who has helped draft a law which would make pornographic deepfakes illegal.

According to a report by The Verge, Grok Imagine’s new “spicy” mode “didn’t hesitate to spit out fully uncensored topless videos” of the pop star without being asked to make explicit content.

Clare McGlynn is the British mother of all Karens when it comes to complaining about men having fun with sex tech. She is effectively the government minister of masturbation in the UK, whose role it is to put as many men as possible onto the sex offender’s register for doing things in the privacy of their own homes. To say that the alleged ‘explicit topless videos’ of Taylor Swift were ‘unprompted’ is a bit of a stretch when they were generated after selecting the spicy mode. But any image of an attractive female in anything but a burka is pretty much on its way to being counted as ‘explicit’ in the UK now. Perhaps Musk should introduce a ‘burka mode’ to keep the Brits happy?