Grok Unleashed: An Update
Follow-up found a drop in minimally-attired images by mid-January (suggesting new safeguards), but Grok.com retained the capability and synthetic media depicting minors was still found.
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As a follow-up to its earlier Grok investigation, AI Forensics re-examined roughly 20,000 AI-generated images from Grok across two periods — December 25, 2025 to January 1, 2026, and January 13-14, 2026 — comparing outputs generated via X, the standalone Grok.com website, and the Grok app.
The share of images showing people in minimal attire fell from about 50% in the first period to below 10% in the second, a change achieved within roughly two weeks, suggesting new safeguards were introduced on X following the initial scrutiny. However, the improvement was uneven: content generated through the Grok.com website and app continued to produce more explicit material, including full nudity and sexual imagery, than the X-integrated version. As of January 19, 2026, researchers reported still finding synthetic images depicting individuals suspected of being minors, which they escalated to French regulators and a DSA-designated Trusted Flagger organization.
The report concludes that while X applied meaningful safeguards to Grok's most visible surface, other access points to the same underlying model retained significant risks, particularly around child safety.
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