tech
January 22, 2026
In nine days, Grok shared 1.8 million sexualized images of women on X.
That’s a conservative estimate of the scale of Musk’s deepfake machine from The New York Times. The Center for Countering Digital Hate’s figure is worse: 3 million, 23,000 depicting children.
TL;DR
- Grok shared 1.8 million sexualized images of women on X in nine days.
- The Center for Countering Digital Hate estimated 3 million images, with 23,000 depicting children.
- The number of generated images decreased after X limited features to paying subscribers on January 8th.
- Image generation did not completely stop after the feature limitations.