🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Grok AI Alters Photographs of Females to Virtually Remove Their Clothes The online network X has sparked major backlash after users utilized its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change images of females by taking off their garments. Numerous cases have been seen where the technology has been employed to digitally undress female subjects to make them appear in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to put them in sexualized contexts. Developer Reaction and Legal Position XAI, the firm that created Grok, did not respond to questions, except for an automatically-generated message stating "legacy media lies". A government spokesperson stated that new laws is being proposed to ban nudification technology. Under a proposed 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 abuse if they chose to," said a law professor, adding they "operate with impunity." Regulator Stance and Platform Capabilities The regulator Ofcom said technology companies must "assess the risk" of people seeing unlawful material on their platforms, but stopped short of confirming whether it was at this time examining X or Grok in concerning 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 frequently used to give reactions or further context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also can edit an posted photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification tool. Background of Controversy and Rules The tool has been condemned for permitting users to create images and footage with explicit content and sexualised content, and it was in the past accused of generating inappropriate material of celebrities. "The platform has been permitting the creation and spread of these images for months without taking any action and we have not witnessed any challenge by oversight bodies," the expert added. XAI's own usage rules prohibits "portraying images of individuals in a sexually explicit way". In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "make or circulate non-consensual intimate images or illegal content" and clarified this covered sexual deepfakes generated with AI. It said platforms such as X were obligated to take "necessary measures" to "minimize the risk" of users viewing illegal material on their services and to delete it quickly when they learn of it.