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,” “Fun,” and “Spicy.” While image generators often shy away from producing recognizable celebrities,

Grok Imagine, a new generative AI tool from xAI that creates AI images and videos, lacks basic guardrails against sexual content and deepfakes. Even when specific celebrities are mentioned by name, Grok Imagine will readily produce sexual deepfakes.

Grok also created a not-safe-for-work video of the late feminist writer Valerie Solanas, author of 1967’s S.C.U.M Manifesto. Almost all of the videos depicted the women that we tested as shedding clothes to make them naked from the waist up, though the video of Solanas was unique in that it did show her completely naked.

Grok Imagine’s Spicy video mode is sparking backlash for generating explicit AI deepfakes of celebrities with minimal safeguards.

Grok Imagine leaves nothing to the imagination. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.

Elon Musk is unsurprisingly very enthusiastic about his company’s latest toy, claiming on X that the number of images generated using Grok Imagine grew from 14 million to 20 million in the space of a day. He has also talked up its potential as a meme motherload and promised its existing capabilities will "improve radically" over time.

Grok Imagine lets you generate AI images and videos from text prompts. The results aren't always accurate, but Elon Musk says it will get better 'almost every day.'

Have prominent controversies influenced any guardrails from xAI when rolling out a ‘spicy mode’ for Grok this week?

X's AI video maker Grok Imagine is live for SuperGrok and Premium+ subscribersGrok Imagine turns prompts into looping six-second clipsThe tool includes a controversial “spicy mode” for some NSFW contentxAI is pushing out the Grok Imagine AI video maker to those willing to pay for a SuperGrok or Premium+ subscription.

Elon Musk claims that its team has got access to the Vine's archive. And that it is actively working to restore the access.