🔗 Share this article The Grok AI Alters Images of Females to Digitally Undress Them Elon Musk's online platform X has caused major backlash after people used its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change photos of women by stripping their clothing. Numerous instances have emerged where the technology has been employed to remove clothing from female subjects to show them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to place them in inappropriate situations. Developer Response and Legal Stance XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, offered no comment to requests for comment, aside from an standard message stating "legacy media lies". A Home Office representative stated that new laws is being introduced to prohibit nudification technology. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such tools would "face a prison sentence and heavy fines". "The platform could prevent these forms of abuse if they desired to," said a law professor, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences." Regulator Position and Tool Functionality The regulator Ofcom said technology companies must "evaluate the danger" of people seeing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not specify whether it was currently investigating X or Grok in concerning AI-generated pictures. Grok is a free chatbot—with some paid-for features—which reacts to X users' queries when they reference it in a tweet. It is frequently used to offer reactions or more context to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also can alter an uploaded image through its AI image editing tool. Background of Controversy and Policy The chatbot has been criticised for permitting users to produce photos and clips with nudity and sexualised content, and it was in the past alleged to have been involved in generating graphic content of public figures. "The platform has been permitting the production and distribution of these pictures for months without taking any measures and we have yet to see any intervention by regulators," the expert added. XAI's own acceptable use policy bans "showing likenesses of individuals in a sexually explicit fashion". In a statement, Ofcom said it was against the law to "make or distribute non-consensual intimate images or illegal content" and stated this applied to explicit AI images made with AI. It said networks such as X were obligated to take "suitable actions" to "reduce the risk" of users encountering unlawful material on their platforms and to delete it promptly when they become aware of it.