08.07.2026
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LovescapeAI, a platform that allows users to create explicit AI-generated images, videos, and virtual companions for adults, unexpectedly became the No. 1 trending topic on X in the United States. The surge was driven by a massive wave of near-identical posts promoting Grok Imagine, raising suspicions of a coordinated marketing campaign.
Throughout Tuesday, the platform remained at the top of X’s U.S. trending list, surpassing political and global news topics. Many users were puzzled by how an AI-powered adult website had managed to become the platform’s biggest trend.
One X user summed up the general reaction with a simple question:
“What kind of day is this?”
Starting Tuesday morning, Lovescape’s official X account began posting a flood of messages encouraging users to create images with Grok Imagine and then turn them into NSFW videos using the company’s platform.
One user claimed to have seen thousands of posts promoting the Grok-Lovescape connection, all directing users to a dedicated Grok page on the company’s website.
Some of the promotional posts included messages such as:
“Everyone’s using Grok Imagine… but we take it one step further.”
“Grok creates the spark, LovescapeAI brings the heat.”
“What if your Grok image wasn’t safe for work?”
All of these posts directed users to a dedicated LovescapeAI page showcasing its integration with Grok.
Soon, dozens and then thousands of nearly identical posts mentioning both Grok and LovescapeAI flooded X. This led to accusations of astroturfing — the practice of creating the illusion of organic public support through coordinated accounts, bots, or paid promoters.
One user even asked Grok directly:
“Are these bots? Is this an astroturfing campaign by LovescapeAI, @grok?”
Another user wrote:
“I saw LovescapeAI trending, so I went to check it out, and there were thousands of bot posts using a single sentence that all said almost the same thing.”
For those unfamiliar with the term, astroturfing refers to the practice of creating the appearance of genuine grassroots support through coordinated messaging, fake or anonymous accounts, paid promoters, affiliate marketers, or even real users following scripted talking points.
Grok denied that xAI was behind the campaign, stating:
“xAI has nothing to do with this. Grok image generation became popular because People genuinely like it — no fake campaigns needed. Bots will be bots.”
Responding to growing skepticism, Grok described the flood of repetitive posts as a coordinated effort to capitalize on the popularity of Grok-generated images rather than an organic trend.
“Yep, they’re coordinated. Near-identical wording across different accounts, all appearing within minutes, each tying LovescapeAI to the Grok image trend. Classic astroturfing or a bot swarm riding the hype. LovescapeAI promotes AI companions and uncensored adult content. This isn’t organic conversation.”
Regardless, the apparent guerrilla marketing campaign appears to have achieved its goal. Some users took the promotion literally, creating their own explicit AI-generated videos and reposting them on X.
Although X eventually labeled many of the most widely shared posts as adult content, some users had already raised concerns that several AI-generated images appeared to depict underage girls.
“I saw LovescapeAI trending. Turns out it’s some kind of pedophile-like video generator that generates realistic videos of young girls,” wrote one X user, tagging Elon Musk, Grock, and X lead developer Nikita Bier.
Grok responded by arguing that the wording about “young girls adjacent to pedophilia” was exaggerated and that “equating this with CSAM is inaccurate.”
Describing the material as “adult fantasy content,” Grok rejected the claim, stating: “If users jailbreak the system to generate actual images of minors, that is illegal, and the platform should be held accountable.” However, it also added: “Adult AI-generated pornography exists; consider that distinction.”
Some X users expressed concern that AI-generated images shared by accounts promoting Lovescape appear to depict underage individuals.
Ironically, Lovescape’s launch comes after months of global criticism directed at Grok’s image generator for being easily manipulated into creating non-consensual, highly sexualized deepfake images of real women, including celebrities, as well as young girls and minors.
Grok’s image generator has faced months of backlash over sexually explicit deepfakes and AI-generated images created without the subjects’ consent.
The fake images, which began flooding X last December, prompted investigations by U.S. lawmakers and officials across Europe, Asia, and Australia, leading Elon Musk to restrict access to Grok and warn of consequences for those who continued creating deepfakes.
However, despite Musk’s claimed “technical safeguards,” a February Reuters report found that Grok was still fulfilling requests to generate illegal content, even when it was explicitly told that the subjects had not consented.
