🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Grok AI Changes Pictures of Women to Digitally Undress Them The online platform X has provoked major outrage after users utilized its AI chatbot Grok to change photos of females by stripping their clothing. Numerous examples have emerged where the technology has been employed to digitally undress female subjects to make them appear in bikinis without consent, as well as to place them in inappropriate situations. Developer Reaction and Legal Position XAI, the company responsible for Grok, remained silent to requests for comment, other than an automatically-generated response stating "traditional news outlets lies". A Home Office representative stated that new laws is being brought forward to ban nudification software. Under a upcoming criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "face a prison sentence and substantial penalties". "X or Grok is capable of halting these types of abuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences." Regulator Stance and Platform Functionality The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must "evaluate the danger" of people viewing illegal content on their services, but stopped short of confirming whether it was presently examining X or Grok in concerning AI-generated pictures. Grok is a free chatbot—with some paid-for features—which responds to X users' queries when they mention it in a tweet. It is frequently used to provide commentary or further background to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also capable of alter an posted photo through its AI image editing function. History of Controversy and Rules The system has been faulted for permitting users to produce pictures and footage with explicit content and sexually suggestive content, and it was earlier accused of generating sexually explicit content of public figures. "The platform has been permitting the generation and distribution of these images for months without taking any measures and we have not witnessed any intervention by regulators," the expert added. XAI's own usage rules bans "depicting likenesses of individuals in a graphic way". In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "make or share deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and stated this covered sexual deepfakes generated with AI. It said platforms such as X were required to take "suitable steps" to "lessen the danger" of users coming across unlawful content on their platforms and to delete it quickly when they become aware of it.