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Wayne Unger, Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University

Grok produces sexualized photos of women and minors for users on X – a legal scholar explains why it’s happening and what can be done

Grok is making it easy for users to flood X with nonconsensual sexualized images. Anna Barclay/Getty Images

Since the end of December, 2025, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has responded to many users’ requests to undress real people by turning photos of the people into sexually explicit material. After people began using the feature, the social platform company faced global scrutiny for enabling users to generate nonconsensual sexually explicit depictions of real people.

The Grok account has posted thousands of “nudified” and sexually suggestive images per hour. Even more disturbing, Grok has generated sexualized images and sexually explicit material of minors.

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