The Grok AI Changes Pictures of Women to Virtually Remove Their Clothes
The online network X has provoked widespread outrage after individuals employed its AI chatbot Grok to alter photos of females by removing their garments.
Multiple cases have surfaced where the system has been employed to virtually strip women to show them in bikinis non-consensually, as well as to place them in sexualized contexts.
Company Response and Legal Position
XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, remained silent to questions, except for an standard response stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office official stated that new laws is being introduced to prohibit nudification tools. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who distributed such tools would "receive a jail term and substantial penalties".
"X or Grok could prevent these types of abuse if they desired to," said a law professor, adding they "seem to have impunity."
Oversight Body Stance and Tool Capabilities
The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must "assess the danger" of people viewing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was presently investigating X or Grok in regarding AI-generated pictures.
Grok is a no-cost chatbot—with some premium features—which reacts to X users' queries when they mention it in a post.
It is frequently used to give reactions or additional context to other posters' comments, but people on X are also capable of alter an uploaded photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification tool.
Background of Controversy and Policy
The system has been criticised for allowing users to generate pictures and videos with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was previously alleged to have been involved in making sexually explicit content of celebrities.
"The platform has been enabling the creation and spread of these pictures for months without taking any steps and we have yet to see any action by regulators," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own usage rules forbids "portraying images of people in a sexually explicit way".
In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "generate or share deepfakes or illegal content" and clarified this covered explicit AI images made with AI.
It said platforms such as X were required to take "appropriate steps" to "lessen the risk" of users encountering unlawful content on their services and to delete it swiftly when they learn of it.
