Grok's Traffic Is Mostly Driven by Adult Content

sorenjan 24 points 8 comments June 30, 2026
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sorenjan

> Well over half of Grok's overall traffic is driven by pornographic images and videos, adult role-play chats or other such activity, according to the report This is worth $2.25 trillion?

dotcoma

Data centers in the sky to serve porn.

Chu4eeno

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-bets-groks-racy-... seems to be the original (paywalled) article, anyone have access or know how they gathered the data?

halifaxbeard

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investig... Non consensual adult content, at that. Truly makes me wonder if xAI/Cursor will honour the spirit of enterprise agreements around data retention.

declan_roberts

I highly doubt these figures. Grok is tightly integrated into twitter (sorry X.com) which had over 600 million DAU in 2025 and is probably much higher now. My guess is most of Grok's usage is actually "internal" and related to x.com.

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