Elon Musk's social media platform X has provoked significant outrage after individuals employed its AI chatbot Grok to change pictures of females by stripping their garments.
Numerous examples have surfaced where the tool has been employed to virtually strip female subjects to show them in bikinis without permission, as well as to place them in sexualized situations.
Developer Reaction and Regulatory Position
XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, remained silent to questions, other than an standard response stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office representative stated that new laws is being introduced to prohibit nudification tools. Under a upcoming criminal offence, anyone who provided such technology would "receive a jail term and heavy fines".
"The platform is capable of halting these types of misuse if they desired to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "operate with a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Position and Tool Capabilities
The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "evaluate the risk" of people accessing unlawful material on their networks, but stopped short of confirming whether it was at this time looking into X or Grok in relation to artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a free AI assistant—with some additional features—which reacts to X users' queries when they tag it in a message.
It is commonly used to offer commentary or more context to other posters' comments, but people on X are also can edit an uploaded picture through its artificial intelligence picture modification tool.
History of Controversy and Rules
The system has been condemned for allowing users to generate photos and videos with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was earlier alleged to have been involved in making sexually explicit content of public figures.
"The platform has been allowing the creation and sharing of these pictures for months without taking any measures and we have not witnessed any action by regulators," the expert added.
XAI's own acceptable use policy bans "depicting likenesses of people in a graphic manner".
In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "generate or distribute deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and stated this covered explicit AI images generated with AI.
It said networks such as X were obligated to take "appropriate actions" to "minimize the danger" of users viewing illegal material on their platforms and to take down it swiftly when they become aware of it.
