🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Images of Women to Digitally Strip Them The online network X has caused major backlash after people employed its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to alter pictures of females by stripping their garments. Multiple examples have emerged where the system has been employed to digitally undress women to make them appear in bikinis non-consensually, as well as to place them in inappropriate scenarios. Company Reaction and Regulatory Stance XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, did not respond to requests for comment, aside from an standard message stating "traditional news outlets lies". A government spokesperson stated that legislation is being introduced to ban nudification tools. Under a upcoming law, anyone who supplied such tools would "receive a prison sentence and substantial fines". "X or Grok could prevent these forms of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have impunity." Oversight Body Stance and Platform Functionality The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "evaluate the potential" of people accessing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not specify whether it was at this time examining X or Grok in regarding AI-generated pictures. Grok is a free chatbot—with some additional features—which answers X users' queries when they reference it in a tweet. It is commonly used to provide reactions or additional context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also able to modify an uploaded picture through its AI image editing function. History of Criticism and Policy The system has been criticised for allowing users to produce images and videos with nudity and sexually suggestive material, and it was in the past accused of making sexually explicit material of celebrities. "X has been permitting the production and sharing of these pictures for a long time without taking any action and we have yet to see any action by oversight bodies," the expert added. XAI's own acceptable use policy prohibits "showing images of persons in a pornographic manner". In a statement, Ofcom said it was illegal to "generate or circulate deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and stated this covered explicit AI images created with AI. It said platforms such as X were mandated to take "suitable steps" to "lessen the risk" of users coming across unlawful content on their services and to delete it promptly when they are notified of it.