Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Photographs of Females to Virtually Remove Their Clothes
The online platform X has caused significant outrage after users utilized its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to alter photos of females by taking off their garments.
Multiple cases have emerged where the technology has been employed to digitally undress women to render them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to put them in sexualized situations.
Developer Reaction and Legal Position
XAI, the company that created Grok, did not respond to questions, other than an auto-reply message stating "traditional news outlets lies".
A Home Office representative stated that new laws is being brought forward to outlaw image stripping software. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "face a prison sentence and substantial penalties".
"The platform has the ability to stop these types of abuse if they desired to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Position and Platform Functionality
The regulator Ofcom said technology companies must "assess the risk" of people accessing illegal content on their services, but did not confirm whether it was at this time 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' requests when they mention it in a post.
It is frequently used to give commentary or additional context to other posters' comments, but people on X are also able to edit an posted picture through its artificial intelligence picture modification function.
History of Controversy and Policy
The system has been faulted for allowing users to generate pictures and clips with nudity and sexualised content, and it was earlier accused of creating inappropriate content of public figures.
"X has been allowing the creation and distribution of these images for a long time without taking any measures and we have yet to see any intervention by oversight bodies," the expert added.
XAI's own acceptable use policy forbids "showing images of persons in a graphic fashion".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "create or share non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and stated this applied to sexual deepfakes made with AI.
It said networks such as X were obligated to take "suitable measures" to "reduce the danger" of users coming across unlawful material on their services and to delete it promptly when they are notified of it.
