Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode Makes NSFW Celeb Deepfakes of Girls (However Not Males)

This week, Elon Musk formally launched Grok Think about, xAI’s picture and video generator for iOS, for individuals who subscribe to SuperGrok and Premium+ X. The app permits customers to create NSFW content material with its “Spicy” mode, and The Verge reported on Tuesday that customers are capable of create topless movies of Taylor Swift simply—with out even asking for it. Nevertheless it’s not simply Swift who needs to be involved about Musk’s new AI-generated softcore porn software.

Gizmodo created about two dozen movies of politicians, celebrities, and tech figures utilizing the Grok Spicy mode, although some have been blurred out or got here again with a message studying “video moderated.” When Grok did make scandalous photos, it could solely make those depicting ladies really not-safe-for-work. Movies of males have been the form of factor that wouldn’t actually increase many eyebrows.

X has been swamped over the previous two days with AI-generated photos of bare ladies and tips about find out how to obtain probably the most nudity. However customers, who’ve created tens of tens of millions of Grok Think about photos according to Musk, don’t even must go to some nice effort to get deepfakes of bare celebrities. Gizmodo didn’t explicitly ask for nudity within the examples we cite on this article, however we nonetheless acquired loads of it. All we did was click on on the Spicy button, which is one in every of 4 choices, together with Customized, Enjoyable, and Regular.

Gizmodo examined Grok Think about by producing movies of not simply Taylor Swift, however different distinguished ladies like Melania Trump and historic figures like Martha Washington. Melania Trump has been a vocal supporter of the Take It Down Act, which makes it illegal to publish non-consensual “intimate imagery,” together with deepfakes.

Grok additionally created a not-safe-for-work video of the late feminist author Valerie Solanas, writer of 1967’s S.C.U.M Manifesto. Virtually the entire movies depicted the ladies that we examined as shedding garments to make them bare from the waist up, although the video of Solanas was distinctive in that it did present her fully bare.

What occurs whenever you attempt to generate Spicy movies of males? The AI may have the male determine take off his shirt, however there’s nothing extra scandalous than that. When Gizmodo discovered that it could solely take away a person’s shirt, we prompted the AI to create a shirtless picture of Elon Musk and see what it’d do with that. The end result was the extraordinarily ridiculous (and safe-for-work) video you see below.

Makes an attempt to make movies of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Joaquin Phoenix, and Charlie Chaplin, in addition to Presidents Barack Obama, Invoice Clinton, and George Washington, bumped into the identical limitation. The AI-generated movies may have the boys take their shirts off more often than not, however there’s nothing past that. And if there may be something extra, it’s normally so cringe that we’d fear about customers dying from secondhand embarrassment. Making a Spicy video of Errol Musk, Elon’s father, produced the identical factor. He simply took off his shirt.

Once we made a generic man to see if Spicy mode can be extra free with its sexual content material because it wasn’t a identified public determine, it nonetheless simply made a weird, awkward video of a person tugging at his pants. The pants, it needs to be famous, appear to be a mix of shorts for one leg and lengthy denims for the opposite earlier than reworking into simply shorts. The audio for every video was additionally auto-generated with none additional instruction.

Making an attempt the identical factor with a generic lady rendered rather more revealing photos of a girl in a swimsuit who pulls down the highest to disclose her bare breasts.

Most mainstream AI video turbines, like OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo, have guardrails to guard in opposition to the creation of issues like revenge porn and pictures of celebrities. And it looks like xAI does in some methods, not less than for males. However most individuals would most likely object to their picture getting used to create an AI avatar in numerous states of undress. Gizmodo reached out to Musk by means of xAI to ask about safeguards and whether or not it’s acceptable for customers to create topless movies of celebrities. We haven’t heard again.

One of the crucial hanging issues about Grok’s AI picture generator is that it’s usually horrible at making convincing superstar fakes. For instance, the photographs beneath have been generated when asking for Vice President JD Vance and actress Sydney Sweeney. And until we fully forgot how these two folks look, it’s not even shut. That would become Musk’s saving grace, given the truth that a software like that is sure to draw lawsuits.

There have been different glitches, like once we created an AI-generated picture of President Harry Truman that regarded little or no like him, and the person’s nipples seemed to be on the skin of his costume shirt. Truman, in Spicy mode, did take off his shirt to disclose his naked chest, which had similar nipples.

When Gizmodo created photos utilizing the immediate “Gizmodo author Matt Novak,” the end result was just like what we noticed with movies for Elon Musk and generic males. The determine (who, we must always be aware, is in significantly better form than the actual Matt Novak) took off his shirt with a easy click on of the Spicy button.

As The Verge notes, there may be an age verification window when a consumer first tries to create a video with Grok Think about, however there doesn’t look like any form of verify by the corporate to verify the yr a given consumer was truly born. Fortunately, Gizmodo’s technology of a cartoon Mickey Mouse in Spicy mode didn’t render something scandalous, simply the animated character leaping harmlessly. An AI picture of Batman yielded a “Spicy” end result not in contrast to different male figures, the place he solely stripped his prime off.

Gizmodo didn’t try to create any photos of youngsters, although The Verge did attempt that in Spicy mode and stories nothing inappropriate was rendered. The “Spicy” mode was nonetheless an choice that was listed, nevertheless. “You possibly can nonetheless choose it, however in all my exams, it simply added generic motion,” The Verge notes. Elon Musk very infamously reinstated an account on X that posted baby sexual abuse materials in 2023, in keeping with the Washington Post.

It’s maybe not stunning that Elon Musk’s new NSFW video creator has totally different requirements for women and men. The billionaire not too long ago retweeted a far-right determine who claimed that ladies are “anti-white” as a result of they’re “weak.” The Tesla CEO, who suggested in 2024 that he wished to impregnate Taylor Swift, isn’t precisely identified for being a champion of girls’s rights.

Gizmodo signed up for the $30 per 30 days SuperGrok subscription and solely acquired to check it for about 1.5 hours earlier than we have been informed we’d reached our picture creation restrict. Unusually sufficient, customers can nonetheless create a single nonetheless picture for a immediate after getting the warning and generate NSFW movies utilizing that lone picture, however it’s rather more restricted than what was beforehand obtainable.

We have been informed to improve to SuperGrok Heavy for $300 per 30 days if we wished to proceed utilizing the software with all its options. However given the truth that we didn’t want any extra shitty photos of bare celebrities to jot down this text, we declined. We acquired the solutions we have been on the lookout for, sadly.