Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed its name to X, and led the platform to become synonymous with political polarization, misinformation, and online toxicity, it was once a safe haven for pornography fans and creators.
Although the same could still be said of X, the presence of explicit adult content is generating significantly more controversy in recent months than it ever had it pre-Musk. Grok, X’s “AI-powered assistant app,” and Imagine, an AI image and video generator, have been used to create an extremely wide range of explicit imagery. From deepfake nude celebrity pics to female alien orgies and cartoon princesses getting railed by humongous orc dicks, Grok and Imagine set the ‘net afire both with hyperrealistic smut and controversy over the ethical and legal implications of this use of the tech.
A K-pop group of smoking hot 20-somethings posing in leather outfits at the Forbidden City in Beijing? No problem for Grok! [Image: gyakuryo_re]
What Can Grok Imagine?
xAI, the company under which Grok and Imagine operate, has stated restrictions on what kinds of images users can create which included deepfakes and nonconsensual use of real peoples’ likenesses in sexual imagery. X and Grok revised these restrictions after significant controversy, though these new restrictions - which are limited to non-premium X users, not users of Grok or Imagine via website or app - are focused more on general usage restrictions, not the generating of explicit content per se.
Grok can produce just about whatever fetishistic content its users desire. [Image L to R: KingLewis08, RevolutionaryTime467, AwkwardArtichoke219, el_Stivo]
By signing up for a free account, we were able to easily generate dozens of suggestive images featuring a fictional female figure. These images were editable and could easily be turned into videos. Some prompts produced content that was suggestive enough to be blocked by automatic content moderation. Others, meanwhile, served up nudity and strongly sexually suggestive actions, which were explicitly prompted. (We’re talking visible buttholes and girls deepthroating cucumbers here!)
Without asking for nudity, Grok gave us a busty display in a book store. [Image: VRPorn.com]
As raunchy as those images may have been, they featured completely fictional characters, not existing people who could, in theory and practice, object to the imagery.
Controversy and Consequence
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked the use of Grok after authorities said it was being used to create non-consensual sexually explicit images. Britain’s media regulator, Ofcom, has launched an investigation into the platform. xAI has, in response, limited access to its image generation and editing tools to paid subscribers - or so it claims.
Elon Musk at the memorial for Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, September 2025. [Image: Gage Skidmore / Wikipedia Commons]
The EU has launched its own investigation into Grok’s potentially unlawful image generation, another blow to Musk’s various attempts to achieve in the EU the same market dominance his companies hold in the USA.
Porn’s AI Future
Porn has always attracted scrutiny and raised concerns about consent and control over individual likeness. With current topical concerns focused on the ethical treatment and moderation of real individuals, many critics of AI are missing the more optimistic view.
If Yuna Layla looks familiar, it’s because she’s an AI face placed on Jewlez Blu’s body for an AR passthrough experience. [Image: Migoto VR]
When generating fictional characters for adult audiences, AI platforms like Imagine and Stable Diffusion can produce almost any kind of adult content that complies with existing laws. Where there has been concern about trafficking or abuse in the real-world adult entertainment industry, AI could step in to address any problems. After all, an AI creation cannot be trafficked, underpaid, mistreated, or cast into unemployment.
A strongly growing AI porn industry already exists, but it doesn’t yet have the same grip on audiences as porn featuring real human performers - understandably so. Much like the moral theory of autonomous vehicle use - i.e, once autonomous vehicles achieve a safety standard superior to that of human drivers, one would be making an immoral decision to drive themselves - porn may one day be full of rendered AI humanoids… and its fans may be just as pleased about this as its critics.
