Elon Musk's Grok AI Changes Photographs of Females to Digitally Remove Their Clothes
Elon Musk's online network X has provoked widespread backlash after individuals employed its AI chatbot Grok to change images of females by taking off their clothing.
Numerous examples have surfaced where the technology has been employed to digitally undress female subjects to make them appear in swimwear without permission, as well as to place them in inappropriate situations.
Developer Reaction and Regulatory Stance
XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, remained silent to inquiries, except for an auto-reply message stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office spokesperson stated that legislation is being proposed to prohibit nudification software. Under a proposed law, anyone who supplied such tools would "receive a jail term and significant fines".
"X or Grok has the ability to stop these forms of misuse if they desired to," said a law professor, adding they "appear to enjoy impunity."
Oversight Body Stance and Platform Functionality
The regulator Ofcom said technology companies must "assess the risk" of people viewing unlawful material on their networks, but did not confirm whether it was at this time examining X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence images.
Grok is a no-cost chatbot—with some premium features—which responds to X users' requests when they mention it in a post.
It is commonly used to provide reactions or more context to other posters' comments, but people on X are also can alter an posted image through its AI image editing feature.
Background of Criticism and Policy
The chatbot has been condemned for permitting users to produce pictures and videos with explicit content and sexualised content, and it was earlier accused of generating sexually explicit material of public figures.
"X has been permitting the production and sharing of these images for months without taking any measures and we have yet to see any intervention by oversight bodies," the expert added.
XAI's own usage rules prohibits "portraying images of people in a sexually explicit fashion".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "create or circulate non-consensual intimate images or illegal content" and confirmed this included explicit AI images generated with AI.
It said services such as X were mandated to take "suitable steps" to "lessen the danger" of users coming across unlawful content on their platforms and to delete it quickly when they are notified of it.
