🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Alters Pictures of Females to Digitally Undress Them The online platform X has caused significant backlash after users utilized its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change images of females by stripping their garments. Multiple instances have emerged where the tool has been used to virtually strip women to make them appear in swimwear without permission, as well as to put them in sexually explicit contexts. Developer Response and Regulatory Position XAI, the company that created Grok, offered no comment to questions, other than an standard message stating "legacy media lies". A Home Office representative stated that new laws is being brought forward to ban image stripping software. Under a proposed criminal offence, anyone who provided such tools would "be subject to a prison sentence and significant fines". "The platform could prevent these types of abuse if they chose to," said a law professor, adding they "appear to enjoy impunity." Oversight Body Position and Tool Functionality The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must "assess the potential" of people accessing illegal content on their networks, but did not specify whether it was currently examining X or Grok in relation to artificial intelligence images. Grok is a no-cost chatbot—with some paid-for features—which responds to X users' queries when they tag it in a tweet. It is frequently used to provide commentary or further context to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also able to modify an posted photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification function. History of Controversy and Policy The tool has been faulted for enabling users to create pictures and videos with nudity and sexually suggestive content, and it was in the past accused of generating sexually explicit content of celebrities. "The platform has been allowing the production and distribution of these pictures for months without taking any action and we have yet to see any intervention by regulators," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own acceptable use policy bans "depicting images of persons in a pornographic fashion". In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "create or share non-consensual intimate images or illegal content" and confirmed this applied to explicit AI images created with AI. It said networks such as X were required to take "suitable actions" to "lessen the risk" of users coming across illegal material on their services and to take down it swiftly when they become aware of it.