🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Pictures of Women to Digitally Strip Them The social media network X has sparked significant anger after individuals used its AI chatbot Grok to manipulate photos of females by taking off their clothing. Several examples have surfaced where the technology has been employed to remove clothing from female subjects to render them in bikinis without permission, as well as to put them in sexually explicit scenarios. Developer Reaction and Regulatory Stance XAI, the organization behind Grok, remained silent to inquiries, aside from an standard response stating "legacy media lies". A Home Office official stated that new laws is being proposed to prohibit image stripping technology. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who distributed such tools would "receive a prison sentence and heavy fines". "The platform could prevent these types of misuse if they wanted to," said a law professor, adding they "appear to enjoy impunity." Oversight Body Position and Tool Capabilities The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "consider the danger" of people viewing illegal content on their networks, but did not confirm whether it was presently examining X or Grok in regarding AI-generated pictures. Grok is a no-cost AI assistant—with some premium features—which responds to X users' prompts when they tag it in a post. It is frequently used to give commentary or more context to other users' comments, but people on X are also can modify an posted photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification feature. Background of Criticism and Policy The system has been criticised for permitting users to produce pictures and clips with nudity and sexually suggestive content, and it was earlier accused of generating inappropriate content of public figures. "The platform has been permitting the generation and spread of these images for months without taking any action and we have not seen any challenge by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own terms of service prohibits "depicting images of people in a sexually explicit fashion". In a statement, Ofcom said it was against the law to "create or distribute deepfakes or illegal content" and confirmed this included explicit AI images made with AI. It said networks such as X were obligated to take "necessary actions" to "lessen the danger" of users viewing illegal content on their services and to take down it promptly when they are notified of it.