🔗 Share this article The Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Modifies Images of Females to Digitally Undress Them Elon Musk's social media platform X has sparked major backlash after users employed its AI chatbot Grok to alter pictures of females by taking off their garments. Multiple cases have been seen where the tool has been employed to digitally undress women to render them in bikinis non-consensually, as well as to place them in sexualized contexts. Developer Reaction and Regulatory Stance XAI, the organization that created Grok, remained silent to inquiries, except for an standard message stating "legacy media lies". A government representative stated that legislation is being introduced to ban nudification tools. Under a upcoming criminal offence, anyone who provided such tools would "receive a jail term and substantial penalties". "The platform could prevent these forms of abuse if they desired to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have a lack of consequences." Regulator Stance and Platform Functionality The communications watchdog Ofcom said technology companies must "consider the potential" of people seeing unlawful material on their networks, but did not confirm whether it was presently investigating X or Grok in concerning artificial intelligence pictures. Grok is a free artificial intelligence—with some additional features—which answers X users' requests when they reference it in a post. It is commonly used to give reactions or additional context to other users' comments, but people on X are also can edit an posted picture through its AI image editing function. Background of Criticism and Policy The tool has been condemned for allowing users to generate photos and clips with nudity and sexualised content, and it was previously accused of creating graphic content of celebrities. "X has been permitting the production and spread of these images for months without taking any measures and we have not witnessed any action by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own terms of service prohibits "showing images of people in a graphic way". In a comment, Ofcom said it was illegal to "create or circulate private pictures or child sexual abuse material" and confirmed this covered explicit AI images made with AI. It said services such as X were mandated to take "suitable steps" to "reduce the danger" of users coming across unlawful content on their services and to take down it quickly when they are notified of it.