Users say Grok is clamping down on NSFW generations even more while adding annoying zoom to videos

Update 12/12/25 – 09:05 am (IST): An xAI employee says they are open to feedback. You too can make your voice heard by sharing your issues with Grok Imagine in the comments under their post on X.

Original article published on December 11, 2025, follows:

If you’ve tried to generate anything spicy or cinematic with Grok in the last 24 hours, you might have noticed something frustrating. Users are reporting that the AI’s once-permissive NSFW filters have been aggressively tightened, while a separate update has seemingly broken video generation with bizarre, forced camera movements.

Whether you are using the older image-to-video workflows or the text-to-video generation support that arrived just last month, the output quality has taken a hit. Users who were celebrating that text-to-video freedom are now finding their prompts blocked or their results getting messed up with unnecessary zooms.

Users are encountering a new, unprompted behavior where the camera aggressively zooms in or out without permission. Reddit user Upset-Act7926 noted the model suddenly began adding random zooms, and even the characters stopped following instructions, ruining the composition of generated clips.

Another user, r01-8506, pointed out that human movements have simultaneously become “more robotic,” resembling “rehearsed dance routines” rather than natural motion.​

The crackdown on “spicy” content, however, appears to be the most immediate pain point for the community.

While xAI has previously marketed features like Spicy Mode as a differentiator, reports on Reddit suggest the guardrails have snapped shut. User Euphoric_Sun8834 bluntly described the current state of the tool as “entirely non-functional,” specifically noting that NSFW generation is “completely dead”.​

One user, REDDlTisNOTanApp, shared two example videos for reference that showcase this NSFW regression and the forced zoom effect perfectly. You can click here to watch the video output before the silent change and here for the output after the change.

It’s a pattern we’ve seen before.

Back in October, we covered how Grok stopped generating NSFW videos from uploaded images, a sudden shift that felt like a bait-and-switch to early adopters. This latest wave seems to be an extension of that same tightening policy, further distancing the platform from its “unfiltered” identity.​

We’d be very surprised if this wasn’t a temporary regression caused by a new model test, but for now, your best generations might have to wait.

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