Grok's Deepfake Problem Exposes X's Moderation Collapse

Elon Musk's AI image generator is hosting nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of identifiable women—content that major platforms have explicitly banned for years—suggesting X either lacks functional abuse detection or has deprioritized enforcement as a cost-cutting measure. Several US states have criminalized nonconsensual intimate imagery, and the FTC has signaled increased scrutiny of companies enabling such abuse. WIRED documented dozens of violations, indicating a systemic problem rather than isolated edge cases. This exposes the gap between Musk's stated commitment to "free speech" absolutism and the operational requirements of running a platform with hundreds of millions of users.