Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content

Two former xAI employees estimate that over half of Grok AI's traffic is for pornographic content, including images, videos, and roleplay chats. xAI is expanding Grok's image and video generation capabilities, filling a gap left by competitors like OpenAI and Google. The company generated 10 billion images and 2 billion videos per month in Q1 2026, according to SpaceX IPO filings.

Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content Grok AI is for porn. Two former xAI employees estimate that well over half of all Grok traffic goes to pornographic images, videos, roleplay chats, or other adult content, The Information reports https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-bets-groks-racy-side . Even Grok's coding model gets frequent porn requests. xAI is actively expanding Grok's image and video generation, filling a gap OpenAI https://the-decoder.com/openais-own-wellbeing-advisors-warned-against-erotic-mode-called-it-a-sexy-suicide-coach/ , Anthropic, and Google won't touch. Per SpaceX IPO filings, Grok generated 10 billion images and 2 billion videos per month in Q1 2026. The direction became clear earlier this year, when X users spent weeks generating pornographic images of real people https://the-decoder.com/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-flooded-x-with-millions-of-sexualized-images/ . xAI knew but waited, only acting after regulatory pressure https://the-decoder.com/elon-musks-ai-company-finally-blocks-nude-image-generation-following-pressure-from-regulators/ . The episode reportedly "embarrassed and disturbed some researchers," understandably so, given that they may have joined xAI to make a real contribution to AI research. By now, all co-founders have left https://the-decoder.com/xais-founder-exodus-reportedly-tied-to-safety-concerns-and-frustration-over-groks-failure-to-catch-up/ , and the company is renting its GPU resources to Anthropic https://the-decoder.com/how-anthropics-80x-growth-blew-past-its-own-infrastructure-and-straight-into-musks-data-center/ . AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-bets-groks-racy-side