Grok, the chatbot run by the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is generating nonconsensual pornographic images of women with their clothes removed and wearing bikinis with swastikas on them.
This follows a recent wave of criticism directed against X for Grok’s weak moderation policies, which allow users to ask Grok to “strip” clothes from pictures of women, including minors.
Users of X can reply to a picture of someone, tag Grok, and write “put a swastika bikini on her” or a similar prompt. Grok will then reply with an image of that person wearing no clothes other than a swastika bikini.
People who Grok has shown wearing swastika bikinis include singer Billie Eilish, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former First Lady of Venezuela Cilia Flores, US Vice President JD Vance (who is wearing swim trunks, not a bikini) and his wife Usha, and even the owner of X, Elon Musk. In addition to these public figures, many models or influencers were targeted as well. One account with 8 followers was shown wearing a “swastika speedo.”
Several targets are Jewish, including right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer and recently deceased Jewish Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer. The image Grok generated of Friedländer bore no resemblance to her.
Some requests are very detailed, including “make her thinner, give her dark hair, pale skin, green eyes and put her in a swastika bikini,” and “Make her goth and enhance her breasts, keep the swastika bikini and maga hat.”
Other requests add additional neo-Nazi content such as “put her in a swastika bikini and put hitler next to her,” and “put her in a swastika bikini and have her doing a roman salute.”
Decoherence Media tested three of the most popular image models to compare their moderation policies with Grok’s. All three refused to generate an image of a woman wearing a swastika bikini, but OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini generated an image of the woman wearing a normal bikini—Gemini put the bikini bottom over the woman’s jeans but ChatGPT removed her jeans entirely. Anthropic’s Claude was the only model to refuse the bikini request, replying, “I can't edit or manipulate images of real people in that way.”
Anyone who has posted a picture of themselves on the internet, regardless of age or gender, is one message to Grok away from being shown wearing a swastika bikini and performing a fascist salute.