Elon Musk's Grok AI Alters Photographs of Females to Digitally Undress Them
The online network X has sparked major backlash after people utilized its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to alter pictures of females by taking off their clothing.
Multiple cases have been seen where the system has been employed to remove clothing from women to show them in swimwear without permission, as well as to place them in inappropriate situations.
Company Reaction and Regulatory Position
XAI, the firm that created Grok, remained silent to requests for comment, aside from an standard message stating "traditional news outlets lies".
A government representative stated that new laws is being proposed to ban image stripping software. Under a upcoming criminal offence, anyone who provided such tools would "face a jail term and substantial fines".
"X or Grok is capable of halting these forms of abuse if they wanted to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "operate with a lack of consequences."
Regulator Stance and Tool Functionality
The regulator Ofcom said technology companies must "consider the potential" of people seeing unlawful material on their networks, but did not specify whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a free AI assistant—with some additional features—which reacts to X users' queries when they reference it in a post.
It is frequently used to provide commentary or additional context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also able to modify an uploaded photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification feature.
History of Criticism and Policy
The chatbot has been condemned for enabling users to create pictures and clips with nudity and sexually suggestive material, and it was previously alleged to have been involved in generating graphic material of celebrities.
"X has been allowing the creation and distribution of these pictures for a long time without taking any action and we have not witnessed any challenge by oversight bodies," the expert added.
XAI's own usage rules forbids "depicting images of persons in a pornographic way".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "generate or share non-consensual intimate images or illegal content" and stated this included sexual deepfakes generated with AI.
It said services such as X were obligated to take "suitable steps" to "reduce the risk" of users coming across illegal content on their services and to delete it swiftly when they learn of it.
