🔗 Share this article The Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Images of Females to Digitally Remove Their Clothes Elon Musk's online network X has provoked widespread backlash after users utilized its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change photos of women by taking off their garments. Several instances have emerged where the tool has been used to digitally undress female subjects to show them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to place them in sexually explicit contexts. Developer Response and Legal Position XAI, the company that created Grok, remained silent to inquiries, aside from an automatically-generated response stating "traditional news outlets lies". A Home Office official stated that legislation is being brought forward to prohibit nudification software. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "be subject to a jail term and significant fines". "X or Grok could prevent these forms of misuse if they chose to," said a law professor, adding they "operate with impunity." Oversight Body Stance and Tool Capabilities The communications watchdog Ofcom said tech firms must "consider the potential" of people viewing unlawful material on their services, but did not specify whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in concerning artificial intelligence pictures. Grok is a free artificial intelligence—with some paid-for functions—which reacts to X users' queries when they mention it in a message. It is frequently used to give reactions or additional background to other users' remarks, but people on X are also can edit an uploaded image through its artificial intelligence picture modification function. History of Controversy and Policy The tool has been faulted for enabling users to create pictures and footage with nudity and sexualised material, and it was in the past alleged to have been involved in making inappropriate material of public figures. "The platform has been allowing the generation and spread of these images for months without taking any action and we have yet to see any intervention by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own usage rules prohibits "showing likenesses of persons in a sexually explicit fashion". In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "generate or share private pictures or child sexual abuse material" and confirmed this covered sexual deepfakes generated with AI. It said networks such as X were mandated to take "suitable actions" to "minimize the danger" of users coming across illegal material on their platforms and to remove it promptly when they become aware of it.