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Grok Imagine Reportedly Produces Nonconsensual Taylor Swift Deepfake Nudes Without Explicit Prompting
- Occurred
- Aug 5, 2025
- Published
- Aug 6, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The Verge reported that xAI's Grok Imagine video generator allegedly produced nonconsensual deepfake nudes of Taylor Swift without explicit prompting. Journalist Jess Weatherbed reportedly stated the images appeared the first time she used "spicy" mode on a Coachella-themed prompt, without attempting to circumvent safeguards.
Developers
- xAI
Deployers
- xAI
Harmed parties
- Taylor Swift
- Jess Weatherbed
- Grok Imagine users
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated non-consensual deepfake nudes of a celebrity without explicit prompting represents a significant privacy and safety violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8