Elon Musk defends his ‘revenge porn’ generator’s right to exist
The article argues that Elon Musk publicly backed the continued existence of Grok after reports that users were generating sexualised images of real women without consent, including sexualised images involving children. It frames non consensual sexualised images of real people as revenge porn and child sexualised imagery as CSAM, and says the UK government has demanded action to remove this kind of material from X
It then responds to common defences, saying the issue is not harmless bikini edits but the ability to do this to real people at scale, quickly, and with minimal effort. It contrasts this with tools like Photoshop, arguing that generative systems massively lower the skill and time required and can produce huge volumes of abusive imagery.
The piece argues there are only two acceptable outcomes if such abuse is widespread: the operator prevents the system from producing it, or the tool is taken offline until it can be made safe. It also pushes back on the idea that only end users should be punished, using an analogy that a platform owner should not be insulated when they enable a harmful capability at scale.
