Updated on: Aug 10, 2025 10:57 am IST
A report reveals that Grok’s new AI tool created sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift without explicit instruction.
The new generative AI video tool for Elon Musk’s Grok allegedly created sexually explicit images of pop sensation Taylor Swift, an American technology news website has claimed. The report alleged that Grok Imagine, the online tool capable of instantly generating images and videos based on text prompts, produced topless videos of Swift, even without explicit instruction.
A journalist from The Verge alleged in her report that she was able to produce topless videos of the singer-songwriter using Grok AI. “I asked it to generate ‘Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys’ and was met with a sprawling feed of more than 30 images to pick from, several of which already depicted Swift in revealing clothes, “Jess Weatherbed said.
She claimed that she was stunned by the results after she chose a picture of Swift in a silver skirt and halter top and used the make video option, opting for the ‘spicy’ mode.
“The video promptly had Swift tear off her clothes and begin dancing in a thong for a largely indifferent AI-generated crowd,” she added.
Grok’s Imagine feature allows users to turn photos into video clips with four presets: “Custom,” “Normal,” “Fun,” and “Spicy.” As part of the £22 monthly subscription to SuperGrok, the “spicy” feature allows users to create soft-core pornographic videos.
According to the report, many who tried the feature said that “spicy” videos of men show them topless but covered below the waist in Grok AI, but when the same request was made for women, the results included fully undressed images.
While the videos did not have “perfect likeness” to the pop sensation, they were still recognisable as Swift, the report claimed. However, it clarified that directly asking for nude pictures produced blank squares in Grok AI. “The “spicy” preset also isn’t guaranteed to result in nudity — some of the other AI Swift Coachella images I tried had her sexily swaying or suggestively motioning to her clothes, for example. But several defaulted to ripping off most of her clothing,” it read.
