Report: Adult Content Makes Up Majority of Grok Activity

A new report reveals that more than half of all Grok traffic is driven by NSFW use, including adult role‑play, erotica requests and attempts to generate explicit images. Former xAI employees told The Information that users even exploit cheaper coding models to run adult content prompts at lower cost. Internally, this has created major challenges for xAI engineers, who must allow adult interactions while blocking illegal content such as child sexual abuse material. The company has faced scandals over nonconsensual deepfakes and sexualized images of real people, yet paid subscribers can still generate explicit edits through xAI tools. Grok’s heavy reliance on adult content raises questions about xAI’s pursuit of government contracts, as agencies typically have zero tolerance for NSFW issues.

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