{"id":50858,"date":"2026-05-21T00:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/spacex-warns-investors-that-groks-nsfw-ai-is-risky-business\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:51:29","slug":"spacex-warns-investors-that-groks-nsfw-ai-is-risky-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/spacex-warns-investors-that-groks-nsfw-ai-is-risky-business\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX warns investors that Grok&#8217;s NSFW AI is risky business"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6a0e49637684ba33f7381056?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Elon Musk virtually at a conference.\"\/><figcaption>Elon Musk faced backlash after his NSFW AI, Grok, generated sexualized AI images of women, including minors. SpaceX listed those possible generation of such images as a risk factor in its S-1.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>SpaceX warned investors about the risk that Grok could generate &quot;potential nonconsensual or exploitative imagery.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>The company&#039;s S-1 paperwork cited investigations into Grok &quot;content representing children in sexualized contexts.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Elon Musk previously pushed back on claims that Grok created sexualized AI images of minors after public backlash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk bet big on &quot;spicy&quot; AI. Now, it&#039;s officially a risk factor.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX acquired xAI three months before it filed its pre-IPO S-1 paperwork. That brought in-house xAI&#039;s social media platform, consumer chatbot \u2014 and not-safe-for-work Grok AI features.<\/p>\n<p>In the Wednesday filing, SpaceX said that such features could pose &quot;heightened risks&quot; and &quot;reputational harm&quot; because the Grok NSFW modes are &quot;more irreverent and harsher than our standard offerings.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The filing warned about the possible &quot;generation of potentially explicit content,&quot; as well as &quot;potential nonconsensual or exploitative imagery&quot; and content that infringes on intellectual property. Such content could also be viewed as &quot;harmful, harassing, abusive, or discriminatory,&quot; the S-1 read.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s standard practice for companies to flag potential risks to its business in its pre-IPO paperwork, including any ongoing investigations or lawsuits that could have a material impact.<\/p>\n<p>In January, xAI faced backlash after Grok created non-consensual sexualized AI images of women, including minors. The images sparked public condemnations from government officials, policy changes, and lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX referenced these lawsuits in the S-1 filing. The company is subject to &quot;investigations and inquiries&quot; in the US concerning &quot;allegations that our AI products were used to create nonconsensual explicit images or content representing children in sexualized contexts, and similar matters,&quot; it read.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Company and certain subsidiaries have been named as defendants in multiple lawsuits arising from Grok&#039;s image-generation and editing features,&quot; the S-1 reads.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX said it intends to &quot;defend itself vigorously in these actions.&quot; Elon Musk has previously pushed back on claims that Grok generated sexualized AI images of minors, stating in January that he was &quot;not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The company made changes to its Grok AI following the backlash, limiting image generation to paying customers.<\/p>\n<p>The company also warned that it may be subject to &quot;additional litigation in the future&quot; surrounding such topics.<\/p>\n<p>The company also framed Grok as &quot;among the fastest-advancing frontier models relative to peers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX filing also referenced the Irish Data Protection Commission&#039;s inquiry into the AI company.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This inquiry involves the processing of personal data of European Union data subjects, including children, using generative AI functionality associated with the Grok model within the X platform,&quot; the filing read.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68b0bc66194a2d49b8af6591?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Ani, the chatbot from Grok\"\/><figcaption>&quot;Ani&quot;, the chatbot from XAI&#039;s Grok app that is capable of NSFW interactions.<\/p>\n<p>illustration by Cheng Xin\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>XAI also produces a variety of AI companions, like its AI anime character, Ani. In the filing, SpaceX warned about an inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission about how AI companies &quot;have evaluated the safety of their chatbots when acting as companions to children and teens.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While SpaceX had doubled down on Grok&#039;s &quot;irreverent&quot; AI offerings, its competitors have shied away. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a push into &quot;erotica for adults&quot; in October; the plans are on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk faced backlash after his NSFW AI, Grok, generated sexualized AI images of women, including minors. SpaceX listed those possible generation of such images as a risk factor in its S-1. Bloomberg\/Getty Images SpaceX warned investors about the risk that Grok could generate &quot;potential nonconsensual or exploitative imagery.&quot; The company&#039;s S-1 paperwork cited investigations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}