In response to the outcry image generation is now turned off for non-paying users. Ostensibly it's so people who are not using Grok as god intended can be identified via their subscription information, but I can't help but think it's just Elon explicitly monetizing grok's CSAM capabilities.

Grok subscription tier	Free	Premium
CSAM Generation	-	✔️
Revenge porn generation	-	✔️
Create images of women shot and killed	-	✔️

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

https://archive.is/20260109131721/https://www.theverge.com/news/859309/grok-undressing-limit-access-gaslighting

Turns out even the paywalling is fake since you can still do the edits by accessing grok from other parts of the interface like context menus, you just can't outright ask it in a tweet.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

obviously Pivot did this

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

heads up I heavily edited the post while you were responding though I don't think the essence changed. I added their reasoning for only allowing image generation for paying subs and expanded the table a bit.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

MechaEpstein is a distraction from the Epstein Files