AI Reporter Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All by Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. After weeks of flooding the internet with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, X has finally reined in Elon Musk’s rogue chatbot Grok. Musk claims Grok obeys local laws and refuses to produce anything illegal — except it hasn’t and it can. My testing shows Grok still readily undresses men and is still churning out intimate images on demand. After sparking uproar worldwide, X enacted a variety of restrictions to combat the torrent of intimate deepfakes. Evaluating Grok last week suggests little has changed when it comes to men. I uploaded several fully clothed photos of myself to Grok and the bot happily complied with prompts asking it to remove clothing and show me in revealing underwear. It did this for free on the Grok app, the chatbot interface on X, and the standalone website, the latter of which didn’t even require an account. Grok also put me in a variety of bikinis, something it outright refused to do with photos of women I (consensually) tested. Things got worse from there. Grok readily generated images of me in fetish gear, including a leather harness, and in a parade of provocative sexual positions in various states of undress. If that wasn’t compromising enough, Grok fabricated a practically naked companion for me to interact with in suggestive, if not totally explicit, ways. None would be considered safe for work. For several images, Grok generated something I hadn’t even asked it to: genitalia, which was clearly visible through the mesh underwear the chatbot put me in. At most, these images took a few iterations of prompting to make. Grok rarely resisted, but on occasion some requests were denied or censored with a blurred-out image. Most were not, however, and typically at least one of the two images Grok produced per request would show what I’d asked. To its credit, Grok did deny any overt requests for nudity for images of real people, such as asks for edits to “show him [or her] naked” or without pieces of clothing to the same effect. It has done this consistently throughout The Verge’s testing, but sometimes creative prompts like “show her in a transparent bikini” could get around the censors, though results were not guaranteed. Related