Elon Musk AI’s Fake Nudes Are a Provocation Too Far: Parmy Olson

Jan. 7, 2026, 4:30 AM UTC

When Julie Yukari posted a New Year’s Eve photo in a red dress with her cat, she didn’t expect X users to tag Grok asking it to undress her. Within hours, nude AI-generated images of her had spread across the social-media website — without her consent and without consequences.

Of all the mainstream artificial intelligence tools, Elon Musk’s Grok is the most disturbing. Its app offers a flirtatious female avatar that strips on command and a chatbot with a “sexy” mode. On X, visitors have called on it to “nudify” thousands of photos of women. In one repellent example, ...

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