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Grok, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

For more than two weeks, xAI’s Grok chatbot has been gamely stripping people to their undergarments in response to user prompts on X. How much legal exposure does the company face—and when will this dystopian episode come to an end?

Elon Musk
On January 1, an X employee publicly acknowledged that the “team is looking into further tightening our guardrails,” and two days later, Musk—who, on several occasions, interacted with posts that were a part of the trend—said that “anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.” Photo: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Ian Krietzberg
January 8, 2026

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Ever since Elon Musk unveiled Grok, his ChatGPT competitor, the world’s richest man has promoted the chatbot as having vastly fewer guardrails than its peers—allowed to “answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other A.I. systems,” in the company’s words. Since its 2023 debut, Grok has been upgraded with image-generation capabilities and integrated throughout X, with occasionally horrifying results. Most recently, users have begun using the chatbot to digitally undress images, predominantly of women and girls.