THE recent Grok scandal has everyone talking about porn.

Sure as day follows night, when a billionaire does something wrong, queues of people line up to defend whatever unethical move they’ve made.

This type of hero worship is based on the idea that if you defend the indefensible, maybe some of whatever tonic made them a billionaire will rub off on you too.

It’s pointless though: you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than become a billionaire (and the lightning strike will probably do less damage to fewer people.)

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Anyway, last week, people decided that Elon Musk’s child sexual abuse imagery machine Grok wasn’t the problem, it was porn in general.

Porn has infected people’s brains so much that these users simply have to create non-consensual sexual abuse imagery… or something. (Limber up folks, we’re gonna be doing some intense mental gymnastics here.)

The view has taken hold in some quarters that if Grok is banned, OnlyFans should be banned too. OnlyFans, they say, is the root of all this.

Bear in mind, the users (mostly men) who used Grok to humiliate women and children can see free porn literally whenever they want and still chose to use AI to invent fake nudity rather than just enjoy nudity that already exists.

Porn isn’t enough for these people, because all of this is about........

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