[xAI Relaxes Grok Content Restrictions to Drive Traffic: Former Employees Estimate Over Half of Traffic Comes from NSFW Content] According to monitoring by Beating, multiple former employees have revealed that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is increasing its investment in Grok's video and image generation capabilities. Two recently departed employees estimate that over half of the traffic on the Grok platform comes from NSFW activities, including adult images, videos, and role-playing conversations. Even Grok's code generation model is heavily used to create adult images, primarily because the code model has lower operating costs. NSFW subscriptions have brought significant cash flow to xAI, with the premium subscription package Grok Imagine charging as much as $300 per month. SpaceX's IPO prospectus disclosed that its AI division is projected to generate $3.2 billion in revenue by 2025 and reach a scale of generating 10 billion images and 2 billion videos per month by the first quarter of 2026. However, the relaxation of restrictions has also sparked regulatory scrutiny and internal disagreements. The EU, France, and the UK have launched investigations into Grok's generation of child pornography images. Internally at xAI, the generation of real-life nude images has raised concerns among researchers, with some technical staff leaving due to being reassigned to develop the sexualized avatar "Ani." SpaceX warned in its prospectus that Grok's ability to generate explicit and unfiltered content could pose risks of reputational damage and explicit imagery. In the long term, Grok's video annotation data is also being used to train "world models" for predicting real-world environments, which may be applied to Tesla's autonomous driving systems and the Optimus robot. In contrast, competitors strictly control adult content. Anthropic explicitly prohibits Claude from generating explicit content, while Google's and MidJourney's video and image models similarly block adult content. OpenAI has also delayed its plans for erotic content. [Original Link]