The Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Modifies Photographs of Females to Digitally Undress Them
Elon Musk's online network X has provoked major anger after people used its AI chatbot Grok to change images of females by taking off their attire.
Multiple cases have been seen where the technology has been used to remove clothing from women to make them appear in swimwear without consent, as well as to put them in sexualized situations.
Developer Response and Legal Position
XAI, the firm that created Grok, offered no comment to questions, except for an auto-reply response stating "traditional news outlets lies".
A Home Office spokesperson stated that new laws is being proposed to prohibit nudification technology. Under a new law, anyone who provided such tools would "face a jail term and substantial penalties".
"X or Grok is capable of halting these types of abuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Stance and Tool Capabilities
The communications watchdog Ofcom said tech firms must "evaluate the risk" of people accessing unlawful material on their platforms, but stopped short of confirming whether it was presently examining X or Grok in regarding AI-generated pictures.
Grok is a no-cost AI assistant—with some additional functions—which responds to X users' prompts when they tag it in a message.
It is frequently used to give reactions or additional context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also able to edit an uploaded image through its artificial intelligence picture modification feature.
Background of Controversy and Policy
The system has been criticised for enabling users to create photos and clips with explicit content and sexually suggestive content, and it was previously alleged to have been involved in creating graphic material of public figures.
"The platform has been permitting the production and spread of these pictures for a long time without taking any measures and we have not seen any action by regulators," the expert added.
XAI's own usage rules forbids "showing likenesses of persons in a graphic way".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "create or share private pictures or illegal content" and stated this covered explicit AI images made with AI.
It said networks such as X were obligated to take "suitable steps" to "minimize the danger" of users encountering illegal content on their services and to take down it promptly when they become aware of it.
