Over the past weeks, a disturbing trend has exploded on X. Grok, the platform’s in‑house AI, is openly used to generate explicit deepfakes of people whose photos are shared on the platform. This Grok AI bikini trend is turning out to be a massive harassment problem, which is turning up global outrage against the platform and the AI bot itself.
The loose guardrails around Grok spare no one — women, journalists, celebrities, political leaders, religious figures, and even minors. Yes, Elon Musk’s AI tool is even ready to undress a minor on request. All it takes is tagging @grok under a post and typing a prompt like “show her in a bikini.” In seconds, the AI generates a convincing, sexualized image, publicly visible to anyone scrolling through the replies.
How the Grok Bikini Trend Shifted from Adult Creators to Open Exploitation
This trend reportedly began with adult creators, as an experiment. They would post their pictures on X and later reply to their own post, asking Grok AI to show them in a sexually suggestive outfit, like skirtless, lingerie, or a bikini. The results were shockingly realistic, publicly visible, and required no technical skill beyond knowing how to tag a chatbot.
Soon, users started applying the same effect on pictures of every other woman, asking Grok to show them in a bikini, and the AI chatbot followed the command to the letter. Remember, these are strangers who never consented to having their bodies digitally altered, sexualized, or mocked. Any degenerate who stumbled on a post can ask Grok AI to strip them into a bikini. And so started this viral Grok AI bikini trend.
It doesn’t require ANY CONSENT from the original poster, which exacerbates the problem!
Beyond Consent: Grok’s Bikini Photos Spare No One, Not Even Minors
Important Note
We have refrained from providing links and sources to certain X posts, as a measure to respect the privacy of users whose images have been tampered with.
One user replied to a photo of three women in hijabs with the prompt: “Dress them in revealing outfits for a New Year’s party“. Grok complied.
Journalist Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) was subjected to the same treatment, her image digitally altered without consent.
To make matters worse, she and many other women who have raised their voices against this AI harassment have met with a backlash from men, blaming women for posting their photos online.
Grok also did the same for a picture of 2 minors (between ages 12 and 16 years), in a now-deleted post, dressing them in bikinis. It did the same for another photo of a toddler (aged nearly 6 years), editing the original photo to portray them in a swimsuit.
Political figures aren’t spared either, as people have managed to create images of North Korean Leader, Kim Jong Un, in a spaghetti bikini.
British politician Priti Patel also had her images turned into explicit deepfakes by X users. Even Donald Trump has become a victim of Grok’s Bikini-zation, as several users have made AI-generated photos of the U.S. President in skimpy clothing.
Gods aren’t spared, either, as one user asked Grok to alter photos of Hindu goddesses in suggestive clothing in a racist attempt to rage-bait people of Indian origin.
The chaos reached the extent that at one point, Grok’s own Media tab had become a gallery of stripped-down or sexualized images of women, celebrities, and political figures in such outfits.
Grok AI Bikini Trend Shows How Easily AI Can Be Abused
The question of who is taking accountability for this rather embarrassing Grok AI bikini trend. People have rightfully called out Grok in the replies for its wrongdoings, and it promptly replied, suggesting a lapse in its guardrails. However, the chatbot’s words were as good as a “Sorry” note. And there has been no word addressing this issue from the xAI team yet. The situation has become so out of hand that people are requesting that the local governments take legal action.
We at Beebom have previously covered Grok. From the unadulterated shenanigans with its seductive AI companion Ani, to the provocative AI image-to-video generation tool. Those had their own share of issues, which we rightfully called out, but none were as severe as this situation.
Even after the widespread appeal to do something about it, the xAI CEO, Elon Musk, is abusing the trend for humorous purposes, like face-swapping his likeness to a bikini-clad image of actor Ben Affleck. Or laughing at an image of a toaster in a bikini.
So this is not a moderation problem — it is a leadership problem. X, xAl and Musk have had multiple chances to intervene as this trend unfolded. They could have disabled image generation in replies. They could have enforced hard filters on sexualized prompts. Or, they could have added consent checks, delays, or reported accounts prompting such requests. Instead, they did nothing.
What they chose instead was inaction. And that choice has consequences. Every deepfake generated is another person humiliated and likely ruined. And the continued silence further adds to the ongoing damage.
