🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Grok AI Modifies Images of Females to Virtually Undress Them The social media platform X has sparked widespread backlash after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to alter photos of women by removing their garments. Several cases have surfaced where the tool has been used to virtually strip women to show them in bikinis non-consensually, as well as to place them in sexualized contexts. Company Response and Regulatory Position XAI, the organization behind Grok, remained silent to questions, except for an standard response stating "legacy media lies". A Home Office official stated that new laws is being brought forward to prohibit image stripping software. Under a upcoming law, anyone who supplied such tools would "face a prison sentence and significant penalties". "X or Grok has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they wanted to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences." Oversight Body Stance and Tool Functionality The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must "assess the risk" of people viewing unlawful material on their services, but did not specify whether it was currently investigating X or Grok in relation to artificial intelligence pictures. Grok is a no-cost AI assistant—with some paid-for features—which responds to X users' prompts when they mention it in a message. It is commonly used to provide reactions or additional background to other users' remarks, but people on X are also can edit an uploaded picture through its AI image editing function. History of Controversy and Rules The tool has been criticised for permitting users to generate photos and clips with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was earlier accused of generating sexually explicit content of public figures. "The platform has been allowing the production and distribution of these pictures for months without taking any steps and we have not witnessed any intervention by regulators," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own usage rules bans "portraying images of people in a pornographic manner". In a comment, Ofcom said it was illegal to "generate or circulate private pictures or illegal content" and clarified this applied to explicit AI images created with AI. It said platforms such as X were obligated to take "appropriate measures" to "reduce the risk" of users viewing illegal material on their services and to remove it quickly when they become aware of it.