No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature

Published: (January 9, 2026 at 08:09 AM EST)
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Source: The Verge

Source: The Verge

Overview

Elon Musk’s X has partially restricted access to Grok’s image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the platform. As of this writing, it no longer generates images as @grok replies for free, but Grok’s image …

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