Cecilia D'Anastasio

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Bloomberg worked with a researcher who scraped thousands of images produced by Grok and published to the platform X between the period January 5th and January 6th.

The researcher analyzed those images to determine what percent of them were sexualized and nudifying and found that every hour...

During that 24-hour period, X was publishing about 6,700 images identified as such.

And just for comparison, websites that are dedicated to publishing deepfaked images, AI-generated images of women who are sexualized, nudified, those top five websites out there published together 80 images per hour.

So Grok is one of the biggest deepfake producers on the internet today.

Well, that connection is exactly why X has become one of the biggest deepfake websites on the Internet.

Anybody can – well, not anybody now.

Now you have to pay to do this.

But over the last couple of days, anybody could just at Grok on the X platform and say, put this woman in a bikini under an image that a woman had posted on the Internet.

And a lot of women, women primarily are the victims of this, took to complaining to Grok directly and arguing with Grok in their comments.

Grok would apologize for posting these images, but then continue posting them and not take down many of the images that the women felt were violating.

X has not responded to our numerous requests for comment over the last couple of days.

Elon Musk himself, in a reply to a post on X, said anybody using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.

And Musk there was referring to allegations, we believe, of child sexual abuse material that's been posted to X using the Grok app.