🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Grok AI Modifies Images of Women to Virtually Undress Them The online platform X has sparked significant anger after individuals used its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change photos of women by stripping their garments. Numerous cases have surfaced where the system has been employed to virtually strip female subjects to make them appear in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to insert them in inappropriate scenarios. Developer Response and Regulatory Stance XAI, the firm responsible for Grok, remained silent to inquiries, aside from an standard response stating "legacy media lies". A Home Office spokesperson stated that legislation is being brought forward to ban nudification software. Under a proposed criminal offence, anyone who distributed such tools would "receive a prison sentence and substantial penalties". "X or Grok could prevent these forms of abuse if they desired to," said a law professor, adding they "seem to have a lack of consequences." Regulator Position and Tool Functionality The regulator Ofcom said technology companies must "evaluate the danger" of people accessing unlawful material on their platforms, but stopped short of confirming whether it was currently looking into X or Grok in concerning artificial intelligence pictures. Grok is a free AI assistant—with some additional features—which responds to X users' queries when they mention it in a message. It is commonly used to give commentary or more context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also able to alter an uploaded photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification feature. History of Criticism and Policy The chatbot has been condemned for allowing users to create photos and videos with nudity and sexually suggestive content, and it was earlier accused of making sexually explicit content of public figures. "X has been permitting the creation and sharing of these images for months without taking any action and we have not witnessed any action by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own terms of service bans "showing images of persons in a sexually explicit way". In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "make or circulate deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and confirmed this applied to sexual deepfakes made with AI. It said networks such as X were obligated to take "necessary steps" to "minimize the danger" of users viewing unlawful material on their platforms and to remove it swiftly when they become aware of it.