Grok Imagine users report weird new static glitch ruining NSFW videos after potential moderation update

Grok users seem to be experiencing a heavily glitched video generation tool today, with creators reporting that their AI animations are turning into a complete mess of scrambled noise and frozen objects. The issue is being widely reported, costing paying subscribers their already strictly throttled daily limits on unusable outputs.

One poster highlighted the problem after trying to animate a standard image, only to receive a completely static object.

Another user also shared a similar output that shows heavy visual noise reminiscent of scrambled 80s cable television. Someone said it even comes with a creepy, gibberish static sound.

It is starting to look like an aggressive, potentially broken server-side update to the platform’s moderation filters is behind the chaos. While a few people noted the issue hitting mundane prompts, many users are reporting that it almost exclusively ruins explicit generations. One creator noted that all their safe-for-work videos are fine, but their NSFW prompts are hit with the heavy static glitch.

The problem is that, rather than clear guidelines on NSFW generations, these sudden moderation hiccups have users wasting their generation limits on broken static.

The platform has a history of messy moderation rollouts. A brief glitch recently locked down image editing tools under false moderation errors before it was resolved. Before that, Grok users complained that older NSFW videos generated through a specific loophole were quietly deleted from their histories without any prior warning.

Today’s static bug complicates things further. Early this year, Elon Musk clarified that Grok would use basic R-rated movie guidelines to allow mature creations, a pivot that came shortly after a heavy-handed update that seemed to censor almost everything users wanted to generate.

For now, xAI has not acknowledged the static glitch, leaving subscribers stuck burning credits on digital noise. But since this seems like an unintended glitch, it’s possible that NSFW generations will start working shortly.

We’ll post an update if and when there are any further developments.

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