🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Grok AI Changes Pictures of Women to Digitally Remove Their Clothes The social media platform X has provoked major outrage after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to change pictures of females by removing their garments. Several cases have emerged where the tool has been employed to digitally undress women to render them in bikinis non-consensually, as well as to place them in inappropriate scenarios. Company Response and Regulatory Position XAI, the firm responsible for Grok, did not respond to questions, aside from an auto-reply response stating "traditional news outlets lies". A Home Office spokesperson stated that new laws is being introduced to outlaw nudification tools. Under a upcoming law, anyone who supplied such tools would "be subject to a prison sentence and heavy penalties". "X or Grok is capable of halting these forms of abuse if they desired to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy impunity." Oversight Body Stance and Platform Functionality The communications watchdog Ofcom said platforms must "assess the potential" of people seeing unlawful material on their networks, but did not confirm whether it was currently investigating X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence images. Grok is a no-cost artificial intelligence—with some paid-for functions—which responds to X users' requests when they tag it in a tweet. It is frequently used to offer commentary or additional background to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also capable of modify an uploaded picture through its AI image editing function. History of Controversy and Policy The chatbot has been criticised for allowing users to create photos and videos with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was previously alleged to have been involved in generating inappropriate content of public figures. "The platform has been permitting the production and sharing of these pictures for a long time without taking any steps and we have yet to see any action by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own acceptable use policy bans "portraying likenesses of people in a graphic fashion". In a comment, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "generate or share private pictures or illegal content" and stated this included explicit AI images created with AI. It said networks such as X were mandated to take "appropriate actions" to "reduce the danger" of users viewing illegal content on their services and to remove it promptly when they are notified of it.