🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Grok AI Changes Photographs of Females to Digitally Remove Their Clothes The online platform X has sparked widespread anger after users employed its AI chatbot Grok to change photos of females by taking off their clothing. Numerous cases have surfaced where the tool has been employed to remove clothing from women to show them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to place them in inappropriate scenarios. Developer Reaction and Regulatory Stance XAI, the company that created Grok, remained silent to questions, other than an automatically-generated message stating "legacy media lies". A Home Office spokesperson stated that new laws is being brought forward to prohibit nudification technology. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who distributed such tools would "be subject to a prison sentence and heavy fines". "The platform has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they chose to," said a law professor, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences." Regulator Stance and Platform Capabilities The communications watchdog Ofcom said technology companies must "consider the danger" of people accessing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was at this time looking into X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures. Grok is a free chatbot—with some paid-for functions—which reacts to X users' prompts when they mention it in a tweet. It is commonly used to provide commentary or more background to other users' comments, but people on X are also capable of modify an uploaded picture through its AI image editing feature. History of Controversy and Policy The tool has been condemned for allowing users to produce photos and videos with nudity and sexualised material, and it was in the past alleged to have been involved in making inappropriate material of public figures. "X has been permitting the creation and distribution of these pictures for a long time without taking any action and we have yet to see any intervention by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own acceptable use policy forbids "depicting images of individuals in a pornographic fashion". In a comment, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "create or distribute deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and confirmed this applied to explicit AI images made with AI. It said platforms such as X were obligated to take "suitable steps" to "minimize the danger" of users viewing illegal content on their platforms and to delete it swiftly when they are notified of it.