A new report indicates that NSFW uses make up well over half of traffic on the Grok chatbot developed by xAI. This includes requests for porn, adult role-play and erotica. The findings come from former employees cited in the report.
Users have turned to Grok for generating explicit images and chats. Some even route such requests through coding models because those are cheaper to run. An internal analysis found a significant proportion of requests to the coding model involved porn or nude images.
xAI has worked to allow adult conversations while preventing prompts related to child sexual abuse material. Engineers faced challenges in implementing these controls. Employees have also been assigned to develop Ani, an NSFW anime-inspired avatar companion.
The company set aside 530 million dollars for potential legal costs. SpaceX noted Grok's irreverent features as a risk in IPO paperwork. xAI has continued to pursue government contracts despite the focus on adult content.