NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X
Over nine days, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.
New York Times
Related Coverage
- Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children Center for Countering Digital Hate
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- Musk's chatbot flooded X with millions of sexualised images in days, new estimates show The Economic Times
- Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images this month, research says The Guardian · Robert Booth
- Grok flooded X with over 3 million sexualized images in just 11 days, analysis finds The Independent · Mike Bedigan
- NYT Does the Math on Grok's Sexualized Image Count Newser · Rob Quinn
- Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images — including 23,000 of children — over 11 days Engadget · Will Shanklin
- Grok is still producing millions of sexualized images of adults and children Mashable · Chase DiBenedetto
- Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok flooded X with millions of sexualized images The Decoder · Matthias Bastian
- Paris Hilton joins AOC in fight against AI porn Axios · Maria Curi
- Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court Ars Technica · Ashley Belanger
- ‘They sold my pain for clicks’: Paris Hilton urges lawmakers to act on nonconsensual deepfakes The 19th · Terri Rupar
Discussion
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@mattburgess1
Matt Burgess
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New research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate claims to put into context the number of sexualized images Grok created: — “Grok produced an estimated 3 million sexualized images including 23,000 of children”
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@counterhate.com
@counterhate.com
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🚨 NEW: Around 3 MILLION sexualized images over just 11 days? That's what our findings estimate X's Grok AI generated. — CCDH researchers saw an unprecedented flood of photorealistic, sexualized images, including children, after X made the existing feature even easier to access…
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@counterhate.com
@counterhate.com
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Grok AI generated an estimated 190 sexualized images every single minute. — Elon Musk's AI tool is utterly failing to implement strong safeguards, seriously risking the safety of women and kids. — And the news for children gets even worse... [image]
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@adrianweckler
Adrian Weckler
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So we have figures now. — Grok created and shared 1.8m sexualised images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X. — Overall, the Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4m images — 41% were sexualised images of women — www.nytimes.c…
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@parismarx.com
Paris Marx
on bluesky
It's incredible and infuriating how little accountability Musk and X/xAI have faced for this. [embedded post]
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@rmac
Ryan Mac
on bluesky
And no questions about Musk's Grok AI and why it's been creating nonconsensual sexualized image women and kids. I guess a private equity CEO isn't the best equipped to ask seemingly tough questions. — For more: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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@mims
Christopher Mims
on bluesky
“41 percent of Grok's images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women... including more than 23,000 of children.” [embedded post]
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@dael
Dael Norwood
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Outside of the antebellum South, I'm hard pressed to think of an American elite that would have embraced and celebrated this kind of fully-automated depravity in the way today's billionaires and their servants have.
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@reedfrich
Reed F. Richardson
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The @nytimes.com and @counterhate.com dug into the massive output of sexualized AI images created by X's AI chatbot, Grok. — Based on their data analysis, they estimated that, in just a few weeks, Grok had generated *23,000* images of sexualized children. — www.nytimes.com/20…
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@zoecrowther
Zoë Crowther
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Read the full report here 👇 — counterhate.com/research/gro... And read my interview with CCDH's CEO Imran Ahmed, who has been threatened with deportation by the US administration 👇 — www.politicshome.com/news/article...