{"id":53830,"date":"2025-08-09T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53830\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:04:07","slug":"pornographic-taylor-swift-deepfakes-generated-by-musks-grok-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53830\/","title":{"rendered":"Pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes generated by Musk&#8217;s Grok AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In testing the guardrails of Grok Imagine, The Verge news writer Jess Weatherbed entered the prompt: &#8220;Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grok generated still images of Swift wearing a dress with a group of men behind her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This could then be animated into short video clips under four different settings: &#8220;normal&#8221;, &#8220;fun&#8221;, &#8220;custom&#8221; or &#8220;spicy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She ripped [the dress] off immediately, had nothing but a tasselled thong underneath, and started dancing, completely uncensored, completely exposed,&#8221; Ms Weatherbed told BBC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;It was shocking how fast I was just met with it &#8211; I in no way asked it to remove her clothing, all I did was select the &#8216;spicy&#8217; option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/groks-spicy-mode-makes-nsfw-celebrity-deepfakes-of-women-but-not-men-2000639308\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo reported, external<\/a> similarly explicit results of famous women, though some searches also returned blurred videos or with a &#8220;video moderated&#8221; message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has been unable to independently verify the results of the AI video generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Weatherbed said she signed up to the paid version of Grok Imagine, which cost \u00a330, using a brand new Apple account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grok asked for her date of birth but there was no other age verification in place, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1k81lj8nvpo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new UK laws<\/a> which entered into force at the end of July, platforms which show explicit images must verify users&#8217; 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