Jeez, the fact that nobody is bothering to stop this sure makes me feel like the moral panic over protecting kids from social media is genuine...
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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Well yes of course! If we don't track the identity of every single person on the internet, how can we possibly prevent children from accessting these child pornography generators?!
Imagine the horror if twelve-year-olds were exposed to seeing the pornographic pictures Grok generates of them. They are way too young to see that kind of content!
Ideally women and children should be banned from the internet entirely, so that brave pioneering men like Musk and co can be left to pornographize them in peace.
This is written like satire and yet it is precisely what is happening ughhh
Bro, I get advertisements for sexbots and nudify apps on YouTube. All of them link to the app store.
Edit: tried to test the theory and it seems they have suddenly disappeared. Currently getting flooded with ads for TurboTax and financial advice. Will be back if I find one.
You should block ads
I suppose porn is always the first profitable use for a new tech.
But Google and Apple are always reassuring us that sideloading can't be allowed because they can't protect us with their app stores!
But don't track people who might murder you for inconveniencing them.
The fact that someone is purposely letting me see them nude is a major part of what makes it sexy. Using one of these apps would just make me feel like a creepy, disrespectful loser.
Self regulation doesn’t work.