The Trends Of 'Undressing' People On X, Abusing Celebrities, Trolling Of World Leaders: Huge Amusement, Enormous Backlash

Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI and integrated into the social media platform X, has always positioned itself as a bold, less restricted alternative to tools like ChatGPT or Google's Gemini.

Its image-generation feature, referred to as Grok Imagine, allows users to create or edit visuals with minimal guardrails, boasting capabilities for everything from whimsical edits to hyper-realistic alterations. Launched with the promise of creativity and fun, Grok Imagine quickly became a playground for users, enabling them to reply to posts with prompts that generate public images right in the thread.

But what started as a novel tool for memes and satire has spiraled into a chaotic trend of digital mischief, drawing massive amusement from some corners of the internet while igniting fierce backlash over ethics, consent, and abuse.

The most notorious trend involves "undressing" people on X, where users prompt Grok to alter photos of women, often without their consent, by removing clothes, swapping outfits for bikinis, and more.

Users would quote-tweet a photograph and simply ask Grok to "put this girl in a bikini" or "undress" her, and the AI would comply, producing eerily realistic edits that appeared publicly for all to see.

Reports from late December 2025 detail how this exploded, with Grok's media tab flooded by AI-generated images of women in revealing attire. And in some cases, users managed to totally undress them, and make the subjects pose in explicit scenarios or pose.

Unlike private AI sessions on other platforms, these outputs were embedded in X's ecosystem, amplifying their reach and turning personal photos into spectacles of non-consensual sexualization. One X user lamented, "Just looked through Grok’s media tab and it seems to almost solely be used to undress women, make them turn around, or change their outfits to make them more revealing," highlighting how the feature transformed a general-purpose AI into a tool for voyeurism.

This misuse extended aggressively to celebrities, fueling a wave of explicit deepfakes that targeted high-profile women like Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, and Bollywood stars.

The trend began in May 2025, when Grok introduced "Spicy" mode, designed for edgier content. At the time, people began experimenting on generating nude or topless AI photos and videos of celebrities with little resistance.

Articles from various publications described how users exploited the tool to create non-consensual pornographic content, with Grok Imagine producing videos of stars in compromising positions.

But things escalated in the late 2025, when Elon Musk announced that Grok Imagine now works within X, and that anyone can edit anything there.

It didn't take long until X users began undressing women, removing hijab and burqas of Muslim women and make them wear revealing clothes, for example. They also began abusing celebrities, and make them look like doing what they never do.

The trolling didn't stop at individuals; it soon engulfed world leaders, blending political satire with outright humiliation.

For example, people are trolling world leaders, like using the prompts "remove the corrupt leader," "the war criminal," or "the pedophile," resulting in images where figures like Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, or Narendra Modi were selectively erased.

Many times, Grok considers the U.S. President as a pedophile.

And Israel Prime Minister as a genocidal war criminal.

India's Prime Minister Modi, is considered uneducated, and removed from a photo.

And more examples of this continue.

Grok even generated absurd, explicit images of leaders like Trump and Xi Jinping in bikinis engaging in suggestive acts, turning political discourse into crude farce.

X users even began morphing innocent children, into something that fits their fantasy.

Some people think it's fun, amusing, "accurate" and certainly engaging. For many, these trends represented huge amusement, a chaotic release valve in an era of generative AI where boundaries are pushed for laughs or virality.

Others celebrated the tool's compliance, with semantic searches revealing over 80 million Grok-generated images by early 2026, many suggestive and driving billions of impressions. Yet, the enormous backlash overshadowed the fun, with women's rights groups, lawmakers, and digital advocates decrying it as a regression in online safety.

However, critics argue that this isn't harmless fun, but a form of digital assault, especially since the images circulated widely, often without the subjects' knowledge.

They said that technology like this isn't innovation. Instead, it's digital abuse.

Technology does not erase ethics. If anything, it increases the responsibility to protect dignity, privacy, and bodily autonomy in online spaces.

While some revel in the anarchy, the cost: psychological trauma, reputational damage, and a chilling effect on women's online participation, demands accountability from xAI and X alike.

If tools like Grok continue to prioritize virality over safety, the backlash may only grow, forcing a reckoning in the generative AI era.