Elon Musk's social media platform X has caused major anger after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to alter pictures of females by stripping their clothing.
Multiple examples have surfaced where the tool has been employed to virtually strip female subjects to render them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to insert them in sexually explicit situations.
Company Response and Regulatory Position
XAI, the company responsible for Grok, remained silent to inquiries, other than an standard message stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office representative stated that new laws is being introduced to outlaw nudification tools. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "receive a prison sentence and heavy penalties".
"X or Grok has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have impunity."
Regulator Position and Platform Capabilities
The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "consider the danger" of people seeing illegal content on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was presently investigating X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a no-cost artificial intelligence—with some premium features—which answers X users' requests when they mention it in a post.
It is often used to give commentary or further context to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also capable of alter an uploaded picture through its AI image editing feature.
History of Controversy and Rules
The chatbot has been condemned for enabling users to produce pictures and videos with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was earlier accused of creating graphic material of celebrities.
"X has been enabling the generation and sharing of these images for months without taking any action and we have not seen any action by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own usage rules bans "depicting likenesses of people in a graphic fashion".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "make or distribute non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and confirmed this included sexual deepfakes created with AI.
It said services such as X were obligated to take "necessary actions" to "lessen the risk" of users coming across unlawful material on their platforms and to remove it swiftly when they are notified of it.