Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Photographs of Women to Virtually Remove Their Clothes
The online platform X has caused widespread outrage after people utilized its AI chatbot Grok to alter photos of women by stripping their attire.
Numerous cases have been seen where the system has been employed to digitally undress female subjects to make them appear in bikinis without permission, as well as to insert them in sexualized situations.
Company Response and Regulatory Stance
XAI, the firm that created Grok, remained silent to requests for comment, aside from an auto-reply message stating "legacy media lies".
A government official stated that new laws is being introduced to outlaw nudification technology. Under a upcoming law, anyone who provided such technology would "receive a prison sentence and heavy fines".
"X or Grok is capable of halting these types of misuse if they desired to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "operate with a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Stance and Platform Functionality
The communications watchdog Ofcom said platforms must "assess the potential" of people seeing illegal content on their networks, but did not confirm whether it was at this time looking into X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a no-cost AI assistant—with some premium functions—which responds to X users' queries when they reference it in a message.
It is often used to give commentary or further context to other users' comments, but people on X are also capable of edit an posted image through its AI image editing tool.
History of Criticism and Rules
The tool has been condemned for allowing users to produce photos and clips with nudity and sexually suggestive material, and it was in the past alleged to have been involved in creating inappropriate material of celebrities.
"The platform has been enabling the creation and distribution of these images for a long time without taking any steps and we have not seen any action by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own usage rules prohibits "showing images of people in a graphic manner".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "generate or distribute private pictures or child sexual abuse material" and stated this applied to sexual deepfakes created with AI.
It said services such as X were required to take "necessary steps" to "minimize the risk" of users encountering unlawful material on their platforms and to take down it promptly when they are notified of it.
