🔗 Share this article The Grok AI Changes Pictures of Women to Virtually Undress Them Elon Musk's social media platform X has caused widespread backlash after individuals used its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to alter images of women by stripping their clothing. Several instances have emerged where the tool has been used to virtually strip women to make them appear in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to insert them in sexually explicit contexts. Company Reaction and Legal Stance XAI, the company that created Grok, did not respond to requests for comment, other than an standard response stating "traditional news outlets lies". A Home Office spokesperson stated that legislation is being brought forward to prohibit nudification software. Under a upcoming criminal offence, anyone who distributed such technology would "face a prison sentence and heavy fines". "X or Grok has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have a lack of consequences." Oversight Body Position and Platform Capabilities The communications watchdog Ofcom said platforms must "evaluate the potential" of people viewing illegal content on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in regarding AI-generated pictures. Grok is a no-cost AI assistant—with some premium functions—which responds to X users' prompts when they tag it in a post. It is frequently used to give commentary or additional context to other users' comments, but people on X are also can alter an posted photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification function. History of Controversy and Policy The chatbot has been faulted for allowing users to generate images and videos with explicit content and sexualised material, and it was earlier accused of creating sexually explicit material of celebrities. "The platform has been enabling the generation and sharing of these pictures for a long time without taking any measures and we have not seen any challenge by regulators," the expert added. XAI's own acceptable use policy forbids "depicting images of individuals in a sexually explicit manner". In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "generate or distribute deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and stated this applied to sexual deepfakes generated with AI. It said platforms such as X were obligated to take "necessary measures" to "reduce the danger" of users viewing illegal content on their platforms and to delete it swiftly when they are notified of it.