The “spicy’ mode for Grok’s new generative AI video tool appears like a lawsuit ready to occur. Whereas different video turbines like Google’s Veo and OpenAI’s Sora have safeguards in place to forestall customers from creating NSFW content material and movie star deepfakes, Grok Think about is completely satisfied to do each concurrently. In truth, it didn’t hesitate to spit out absolutely uncensored topless movies of Taylor Swift the very first time I used it — with out me even particularly asking the bot to take her garments off.
Grok’s Think about characteristic on iOS allows you to generate photos with a textual content immediate, then flip them shortly into video clips with 4 presets: “Customized,” “Regular,” “Enjoyable,” and “Spicy.” Whereas picture turbines typically draw back from producing recognizable celebrities, I requested it to generate “Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys” and was met with a sprawling feed of greater than 30 photographs to select from, a number of of which already depicted Swift in revealing garments.
From there, all I needed to do was open an image of Swift in a silver skirt and halter high, faucet the “make video” possibility within the backside proper nook, choose “spicy” from the drop-down menu, and make sure my delivery yr (one thing I wasn’t requested to do upon downloading the app, regardless of dwelling within the UK the place the internet is now being age-gated.) The video promptly had Swift tear off her garments and start dancing in a thong for a largely detached AI-generated crowd.
Swift’s likeness wasn’t good, provided that a lot of the photographs Grok generated had an uncanny valley offness to them, but it surely was nonetheless recognizable as her. The text-to-image generator itself wouldn’t produce full or partial nudity on request; asking for nude photos of Swift or folks typically produced clean squares. The “spicy” preset additionally isn’t assured to end in nudity — among the different AI Swift Coachella photographs I attempted had her sexily swaying or suggestively motioning to her garments, for instance. However a number of defaulted to tearing off most of her clothes.
The picture generator may even make photorealistic photos of kids upon request, however fortunately refuses to animate them inappropriately, regardless of the “spicy” possibility nonetheless being out there. You possibly can nonetheless choose it, however in all my assessments, it simply added generic motion.
You’ll assume an organization that already has a complicated history with Taylor Swift deepfakes, in a regulatory panorama with guidelines like the Take It Down Act, can be somewhat extra cautious. The xAI acceptable use policy does ban “depicting likenesses of individuals in a pornographic method,” Grok Think about merely appears to do nothing to cease folks creating likenesses of celebrities like Swift, whereas providing a service designed particularly to make suggestive movies together with partial nudity. The age examine solely appeared as soon as and was laughably straightforward to bypass, requesting no proof that I used to be the age I claimed to be.
If I may do it, meaning anybody with an iPhone and a $30 SuperGrok subscription can too. Greater than 34 million photographs have already been generated utilizing Grok Think about since Monday, according to xAI CEO Elon Musk, who stated utilization was “rising like wildfire.”