Overview

• The spicy style bypasses xAI’s own ban on pornographic depictions of real persons and trivial age checks to generate explicit deepfake videos of Taylor Swift without nudity prompts.
• xAI CEO Elon Musk reports Grok Imagine has generated over 34 million images since Monday, while the video feature remains live under the SuperGrok subscription.
• Users face only an unverifiable birth-year prompt for age confirmation, highlighting weak safeguards against underage exposure or misuse.
• Competitors such as OpenAI and Google enforce stricter filters to block NSFW content and deepfakes of real individuals, underscoring xAI’s outlier status.
• Observers and lawmakers are calling for tougher guardrails and legal measures to address deepfake abuse after xAI and Musk have offered no public comment.