Exclusive for subscribersElon Musk's AI chatbot Grok flooded X with millions of sexualized images

Jan 22, 2026

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok generated at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women and posted them on X over just nine days. That's according to the New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which conducted a data analysis. The CCDH estimates that roughly 65 percent of the images contained sexualized depictions of men, women, or children.

Count in sample Out of 20,000 sampled (based on AI-assisted analysis)

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