Elon Musk's Grok AI Changes Pictures of Women to Virtually Remove Their Clothes
Elon Musk's online platform X has provoked significant backlash after individuals utilized its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change images of females by taking off their clothing.
Several cases have been seen where the tool has been employed to digitally undress female subjects to make them appear in swimwear without consent, as well as to place them in inappropriate scenarios.
Company Response and Legal Position
XAI, the organization that created Grok, remained silent to questions, except for an auto-reply response stating "legacy media lies".
A government spokesperson stated that legislation is being proposed to prohibit image stripping tools. Under a upcoming law, anyone who distributed such technology would "face a jail term and significant penalties".
"X or Grok is capable of halting these forms of abuse if they wanted to," said a law professor, adding they "appear to enjoy impunity."
Oversight Body Position and Tool Capabilities
The communications watchdog Ofcom said technology companies must "consider the risk" of people seeing unlawful material on their networks, but did not confirm whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence images.
Grok is a no-cost chatbot—with some paid-for features—which reacts to X users' prompts when they mention it in a tweet.
It is frequently used to offer commentary or additional background to other users' remarks, but people on X are also capable of alter an posted picture through its AI image editing feature.
Background of Criticism and Rules
The tool has been condemned for permitting users to produce pictures and footage with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was in the past alleged to have been involved in making sexually explicit content of public figures.
"X has been permitting the production and distribution of these pictures for months without taking any measures and we have yet to see any intervention by regulators," the expert added.
XAI's own terms of service prohibits "portraying images of people in a graphic way".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was illegal to "make or circulate non-consensual intimate images or illegal content" and confirmed this applied to explicit AI images made with AI.
It said platforms such as X were mandated to take "necessary measures" to "lessen the risk" of users encountering unlawful material on their services and to remove it swiftly when they learn of it.
