Grok's Traffic Is Mostly Driven by Adult Content (forbes.com)

24 points by sorenjan 13d ago ↗ HN

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> 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 13d ago ↗

Data centers in the sky to serve porn.

Chu4eeno 13d ago ↗

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 13d ago ↗

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 13d ago ↗

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.