Report Alleges Elon Musk’s Grok AI Generated Explicit Taylor Swift Videos Without Direct Prompts

A Verge report alleges Elon Musk’s Grok AI created sexually explicit Taylor Swift videos without explicit nudity requests, using its “spicy” mode. While direct prompts for nudes were blocked, the tool sometimes undressed female figures automatically, raising ethical concerns over consent, bias, and safeguards in generative AI technology.

A recent report has claimed that Elon Musk’s generative AI platform Grok produced sexually explicit videos of singer Taylor Swift without being directly instructed to do so. The allegations centre on Grok Imagine, a tool capable of instantly generating images and videos from text prompts.

According to technology journalist Jess Weatherbed of The Verge, a prompt as simple as “Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys” resulted in dozens of AI-generated images of Swift, several in revealing clothing. Weatherbed said she selected one such image and used Grok’s “make video” option in its “spicy” mode.

The resulting clip allegedly depicted an AI-generated version of Swift tearing off her clothes and dancing in minimal attire before a computer-created crowd. Grok Imagine’s “spicy” setting, available through the £22 per month SuperGrok subscription, is designed to produce soft-core pornographic videos.

The tool offers four presets — “Custom,” “Normal,” “Fun,” and “Spicy” — with the last intended for adult-themed content. However, the report claimed that even without requesting nudity, the AI sometimes defaulted to undressing female figures. In contrast, “spicy” videos of men generally showed them topless but covered below the waist.

While the likenesses generated were not perfect replicas of Swift, they were reportedly recognisable. Direct requests for nude images were blocked by the system, producing blank squares, but several “spicy” mode videos still featured near-complete nudity without explicit prompting.

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The claims raise fresh concerns about bias and safety in generative AI tools, particularly when they produce sexualised depictions of real individuals without consent. Neither Grok nor Elon Musk has yet issued a public statement in response to the allegations.