Elon Musk's social media platform X has sparked significant anger after people utilized its AI chatbot Grok to change photos of females by taking off their garments.
Multiple instances have been seen where the tool has been employed to virtually strip women to show them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to place them in inappropriate contexts.
Developer Response and Legal Stance
XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, did not respond to inquiries, except for an standard response stating "legacy media lies".
A government official stated that legislation is being proposed to prohibit nudification tools. Under a upcoming criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "face a prison sentence and heavy penalties".
"The platform could prevent these forms of abuse if they wanted to," said a law professor, adding they "operate with a lack of consequences."
Regulator Stance and Platform Functionality
The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "assess the danger" of people seeing unlawful material on their networks, but stopped short of confirming whether it was currently examining X or Grok in regarding AI-generated images.
Grok is a no-cost artificial intelligence—with some paid-for functions—which answers X users' requests when they mention it in a message.
It is frequently used to provide commentary or more background to other users' comments, but people on X are also can modify an posted image through its artificial intelligence picture modification feature.
Background of Controversy and Policy
The chatbot has been faulted for enabling users to create pictures and clips with nudity and sexually suggestive material, and it was in the past alleged to have been involved in generating inappropriate material of celebrities.
"X has been allowing the generation and sharing of these pictures for months without taking any steps and we have not seen any challenge by oversight bodies," the expert added.
XAI's own acceptable use policy prohibits "portraying likenesses of individuals in a pornographic fashion".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "create or circulate private pictures or child sexual abuse material" and stated this applied to sexual deepfakes generated with AI.
It said networks such as X were required to take "necessary actions" to "lessen the danger" of users encountering illegal content on their services and to remove it promptly when they are notified of it.
