🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Grok AI Alters Photographs of Females to Virtually Undress Them The online platform X has sparked widespread backlash after people utilized its AI chatbot Grok to manipulate photos of women by taking off their attire. Several examples have been seen where the tool has been used to remove clothing from female subjects to render them in bikinis non-consensually, as well as to put them in sexually explicit situations. Developer Response and Regulatory Position XAI, the organization behind Grok, remained silent to questions, aside from an automatically-generated response stating "traditional news outlets lies". A Home Office representative stated that legislation is being brought forward to outlaw image stripping tools. Under a new law, anyone who provided such technology would "receive a prison sentence and significant fines". "The platform is capable of halting these types of misuse if they wanted to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy impunity." Oversight Body Position and Tool Capabilities The communications watchdog Ofcom said platforms must "evaluate the potential" of people accessing illegal content on their platforms, but did not specify whether it was presently examining X or Grok in relation to artificial intelligence pictures. Grok is a no-cost AI assistant—with some premium functions—which reacts to X users' requests when they tag it in a post. It is frequently used to offer reactions or further background to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also able to edit an posted photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification tool. History of Controversy and Policy The system has been condemned for allowing users to produce images and footage with explicit content and sexually suggestive content, and it was in the past alleged to have been involved in making inappropriate material of celebrities. "X has been enabling the generation and sharing of these images for months without taking any measures and we have not witnessed any intervention by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own terms of service forbids "showing likenesses of people in a sexually explicit way". In a comment, Ofcom said it was illegal to "create or distribute non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and stated this included sexual deepfakes created with AI. It said platforms such as X were obligated to take "suitable steps" to "minimize the danger" of users viewing unlawful content on their platforms and to take down it promptly when they become aware of it.