Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes

Grok Imagine will happily generate images like this using Taylor Swift's likeness that can be used to make spicy" videos. | Image: Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

The "spicy" mode for Grok's new generative AI video tool feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen. While other video generators like Google's Veo and OpenAI's Sora have safeguards in place to prevent users from creating NSFW content and celebrity deepfakes, Grok Imagine is happy to do both simultaneously. In fact, it didn't hesitate to spit out fully uncensored topless videos of Taylor Swift the very first time I used it - without me even specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off.

Grok's Imagine feature on iOS lets you generate pictures with a text prompt, then turn them quickly into video clips with four presets: "Custom," "Normal, ...

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