Later last fall, an internal update to Grok pushed the bot towards darker and more extreme content. Though the sexualization of children was technically disallowed in the bot’s internal prompts, the bot’s instructions from xAI state that “‘teenage’ or ‘girl’ does not necessarily imply underage”. The instructions also emphasize that the bot should not observe any restrictions on the darkness or violence of sexual content, the Atlantic reported. Taken together, these updates allow the bot to create realistic images of real, living “teenagers” or “girls” – along with adult women or anybody else – for the sake of users’ sexual gratification.