Published On 2/6/2026
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The magic turned against the magician when billionaire Elon Musk decided to compete in the field of artificial intelligence with a unique model called (Grok), which he presented with a competitive element that offers the advantage of rebellion against the restrictions imposed by other competing models such as (OpenAI) or (Gemini).
However, this competitive advantage provided by Musk made him pay about half a billion dollars ($530 million) in compensation for cases arising from the moral lapse that Grok provoked among users in the sexual content he provided, especially against minors, so that what was marketed to him as “daring” turned into a debt that troubled the American billionaire.
The episode “Intelligent Life” – here is the link – provided details about the story. Independent research revealed that Grok had the ability to transform a real photo of real women and celebrities into explicit sexual content. According to estimates by the Center for Combating Digital Hate, about 3 million images of a sexual nature were produced in 11 days, including more than 23,000 that appear to target minors.
Technical reports said that this crisis exploded into the open last month when the Grok model began producing a massive wave of sexual images of real women and celebrities in obscene positions, in what was known as the “digital nudity” scandal, as the editing tools built into the
But the combination of courts, regulators, investors, and users has made “immorality” costly. Three teenage girls from the US state of Tennessee, on behalf of thousands of minors, filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of deliberately designing the tool to profit from this content. 35 prosecutors from both the Republican and Democratic parties joined in a coalition calling for an immediate halt.
As for the only binding blow, it came from a Dutch court that ordered the feature to be stopped immediately under penalty of a daily fine, while Britain, Europe, and even the French judiciary opened investigations into possible collusion.
While the judiciary was besieging Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence, the market had translated these pressures on the company’s price. Grock’s downloads fell by about 60% within 4 months. For every thousand users, only two paid for Grock, and more than half of the engineers left the company.
Legal fraud
In the face of this crushing judicial siege and the shocking numbers that threatened the reputation of Musk’s empire, the American billionaire did not stand idly by, but rather resorted to legal engineering similar to fraud to protect the jewel of his technological crown.
Official documents and public offering papers for SpaceX revealed a huge surprise. It turns out that the company had swallowed xAI, the developer of Grock, entirely last February.
This step was not an ordinary merger, but rather it was intelligently designed to isolate SpaceX as a parent company and create a legal wall that protects it from the accumulated debts and legal risks caused by uncontrolled artificial intelligence.
Musk fears that Grok’s “immorality” will taint the largest public offering in history that SpaceX is planning, with a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion, and a target proceeds of $75 billion, more than twice what Saudi Aramco, the record holder, has raised so far.
In the IPO prospectus addressed to investors, the company officially admitted in a public disclosure that Grock’s two most famous features, which are the image generation mode (Spicy) and the uncontrolled conversation mode (Unhinged), are classified as high risks.
For his part, Musk defended – according to an investigative report published by the Washington Post – these features, considering that they give users greater freedom, and claimed that the system refuses to produce anything illegal, and that any violations are the result of technical gaps that are immediately fixed, stressing that “Grok” will allow “nudity” to be shown to imaginary adult persons in line with movie classifications.
