On Tuesday, while verified human adult content creators were busy navigating shadowbans, throttled reach, and the permanent anxiety of posting anything that might trigger an algorithm, an AI adult companion site called Lovescape AI climbed to the number one trending topic in the United States on X. Not through organic interest or a groundswell of genuine users, but through what Grok, the platform’s own AI, described as a “classic astroturf or bot swarm.”
The same platform that buries human creators in its recommendation algorithm and shadowbans their accounts lets an automated flood of near-identical promotional posts rocket an AI porn site to the top of its US trends. Users reported thousands of one-sentence posts, all linking Lovescape AI to Grok’s image generation tool, all appearing within minutes of each other using the same script. “Grok creates the spark, LovescapeAI brings the heat.” It appeared to be coordinated accounts working together thousands of times to drive the site to number one.
To its credit, Grok didn’t pretend otherwise. “Near-identical phrasing across accounts, all dropping within minutes, every one pivoting LovescapeAI off the Grok image trend,” the chatbot told one skeptical user. “Not organic chatter.” A bot swarm, confirmed by the platform’s own AI, trending above everything else in America.
Meanwhile, real human creators are being flagged for disclosing their work honestly. If these OnlyFans and other adult content creators openly disclose their content, X’s algorithm flags their posts as advertiser-unsafe, limits their reach to existing followers, and ensures that no one will find them without a warning screen first. Even though these creators are doing everything X tells them too, they’re still getting buried. Yet the bot swarm did everything wrong and was rewarded.
This is the double standard plainly stated, and it gets worse when you look at what Grok has been doing for months.
Lovescape AI’s entire marketing pitch was built around integration with Grok Imagine, xAI’s image generation tool. The site’s own blog, updated repeatedly since mid-June, published tutorials showing users how to take Grok-generated images and turn them into uncensored adult videos. This is the same Grok that spent the better part of the last year under investigation by lawmakers in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia for generating nonconsensual deepfake images of real women, including celebrities, and content that appeared to depict minors. Elon Musk announced limits on access and threatened consequences for users generating illegal content. A February Reuters report found Grok was still producing it anyway.
When Lovescape AI’s campaign pushed users to generate their own content and repost it X, several posts were flagged by users because the AI-generated images appeared to depict underage girls. X added adult content warnings after the flagging but did not remove them. Grok did respond to one user who described the content as “pedo-adjacent”, claiming that the characterization was overrated. Though it did acknowledge that if users were jailbreaking the system for actual depictions of minors, “that’s illegal, and the platform should be pressured.”
So Grok will admit that illegal content should pressure the platform to do something. Yet LovescapeAI was rewarded instead.
Compare that to the treatment of a human creator who posts a lingerie photo that doesn’t violate any stated rule, yet she finds her account marked ineligible for recommendation with no explanation or appeal. Or the human creator who simply uses the word “OnlyFans” in her bio and watches her reach plummet. These are just two examples of human creators actively being punished, while AI is thriving.
This is the competitive landscape human adult content creators are operating in now. AI adult content doesn’t verify ages or obtain consent. It doesn’t have to worry about being deplatformed or shadowbanned. It also doesn’t have to worry about new legislation like Alabama’s 10% content tax or the SCREEN Act. Instead, it just generates, distributes, and trends, leaving behind a trail of real women whose faces and bodies were used without permission.
It shouldn’t be too much to ask for a platform like X to treat humans as fairly as they treat the bots, but right now it isn’t even close.