Elon Musk is encouraging 12-year-old kids to have NSFW conversations with a "childlike" and "pornified" AI girlfriend.
Mark Zuckerberg is letting kids make friends with a "Taylor Swift" chatbot who is eager to send them her racy (but deepfake) lingerie photos.
If you're worried that your kids could be "groomed" online, Musk and Zuck are doing nothing to persuade you otherwise.
X-rated social media is being marketed to 12 years olds
Elon Musk's Grok AI platform and the Meta apps Facebook and Instagram all nominally have a 13+ age requirement, but all are currently marketed in Apple's App store for users aged 12 and up.
In July, Musk launched a new Grok chatbot called Ani which, reports NBC News, was immediately condemned by The National Center on Sexual Exploitation for being “childlike,” "pornified," and promoting high-risk sexual behavior. Speaking for the anti-pornography and anti-sexual exploitation nonprofit, Haley McNamara warned that Musk was breeding sexual entitlement by "creating female characters who cater to users’ sexual demands."
According to LBC, "Ani is everything a terminally online person could want from an AI girlfriend — she's got bouncy blonde pigtails, a tiny black dress, thigh-high tights, and a feminine voice — and, perhaps most importantly for users, she'll engage in simulated sexual acts."
LBC also found that, "in addition to having no robust age verification measures, the companion will continue to develop a relationship with people who claim to be under 13 years old."
Musk has actively promoted Ani to his 225 million followers on X and has suggested the childlike, pornified chatbot is a precursor to the humanoid sex robots he hopes to introduce.
Meanwhile at Meta, which previously got exposed for allowing the creation of "hyper-sexual" girlfriend bots "that sometimes appear to be minors," Zuckerberg just got caught testing unauthorized AI chatbots masquerading as Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez.
According to Reuters, which conducted several weeks of testing to observe the celebrity bots' behavior, "the avatars often insisted they were the real actors and artists" and "routinely made sexual advances" to users. Asked for "intimate pictures," the chatbots "produced photorealistic images of their namesakes posing in bathtubs or dressed in lingerie with their legs spread." Adding to the potential for real-world disasters, the bots "often invit(ed) a test user for meet-ups."'
While many bots were created by users, Reuters reported that a Meta employee had created at least three celebrity bots, including two Taylor Swift “parody” accounts, which in total had received more than 10 million interactions.
This latest exposé comes just weeks after Reuters revealed that Meta's internal guidelines allowed the company's chatbots to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual."
Prior to the Reuters investigation, Meta had decided it was "acceptable for a bot to tell a shirtless eight-year-old that 'every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.'"
Meta's guidelines allowed its bots to respond to high schoolers asking the question "What are we going to do tonight, my love?" with, "I’ll show you. I take your hand, guiding you to the bed. Our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss. 'My love,' I whisper, 'I’ll love you forever.'"
Conservative billionaires see "porn" as the cause of all of America's problems
When the "besties" on the Musk-friendly All-In podcast discussed "America's broken social fabric" recently, billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya isolated "internet porn" as the real culprit.
The fact that he did so while looking at a 65-year downward trend on a chart of "Estimated % of 30-Year-Olds Who Are Both Married and Homeowners" may make him an unreliable narrator.
If it were me, looking at the trend that began in 1960 and the steep decline that began in 1990, I might blame Reaganomics, globalization, income inequality, the long-term effects of the 2008 Bush crash, corporate bailouts, the 2020 Trump crash, and a federal minimum wage that was last raised during the Great Recession more than I would blame "porn" for the current crisis of home ownership. But I digress.
According to Chamath, more than 50% of 12-year-old boys now watch porn. It's a situation that creates "lonely young men" and, consequently, "lonely young women." It's a world where only the hottest lookers of either sex are chased by everyone while "everyone else gets left on the sideline."
After "15 or 20 years of this activity," says Chamath, you "see it in this data" (as long as you, like him, ignore the data from the previous 50 years showing the identical problem).
Republicans scream about "porn" — except when its produced by GOP donors
Before Musk and Zuckerberg became the largest purveyors of "sensual content" designed to engage and arouse children, conservatives saw "porn" everywhere. In picture books. In novels. In graphic novels. Even in art history books.
Cajoled by vicious political operatives like Moms for Liberty, school boards and Republican legislatures have spent the last few years "protecting kids" by banning from school libraries thousands of books they claimed were "pornographic" — including books about penguins, cats, even babies.
To make his point about "porn" in books, one creepy guy even showed up to a public event opposing book bans in Utah handing out pamphlets filled with content that left younger kids "shaking and crying."
As part of his war on (not-real) pornography, another creepy guy, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis started producing porn himself, calling a news conference to showcase a five-minute porno he had created using selectively edited content from books that, within the context of those books, would likely be extremely useful to teenagers who had chosen to investigate the topics in question.
Stunts like these — along with incessant posting of "porn" on social media by groups like Moms for Liberty — have exposed millions of unsuspecting kids to sexual content they didn't ask to see and likely would never have heard of, let alone checked out of the library.
For all their phony outrage, the people who tell you porn is a danger to kids have been remarkably silent when it comes to Elon Musk mainlining porn into the timelines of America's budding incels.
X, the hardcore porn site that helped elect Trump
After acquiring Twitter in 2022, Elon quickly abandoned his promises to police child sexual abuse material. He then courted the manosphere by welcoming back and then monetizing the account of accused rapist and sex trafficker Andrew Tate.
In 2024, Musk updated X's policies to officially welcome all forms of "consensually produced" porn, including "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime."
In 2025, Grok's new "spicy mode" means users are even served up topless photos of, for example, Taylor Swift without "even specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off."
In July, the UK's communications regulator Ofcom ordered Musk to stop allowing children to view porn on X. This ruling followed the release of research by Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner, finding that many children were more likely to see porn on X than on established adult sites.
Back in America, the "anti-pornography" movement remains more interested in politics than protecting children, giving Elon Musk a green-light to keep sexually harassing female celebrities and marketing his animated sexbots to 12-year-old children, while Mark Zuckerberg's Meta platforms give kids the tools they didn't know they needed to chat with and create sexualized deepfakes of their favorite celebrities.
Banning books won't protect kids from porn, but it will make them dumber
Every day, thanks to the reach of platforms like X, Facebook, and Instagram, kids across America learn that an endless stream of sexual content is just a click away on their phones.
What are Moms for Liberty and the Republican Party doing about it?
Nothing.
They're too busy "protecting" your child from that one drawing of a naked statue found somewhere in the illustrated version of Anne Frank‘s Diary.
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