🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Images of Females to Digitally Undress Them The social media platform X has provoked significant outrage after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to alter pictures of women by taking off their garments. Several cases have been seen where the system has been employed to virtually strip female subjects to make them appear in swimwear without consent, as well as to insert them in inappropriate scenarios. Company Reaction and Legal Stance XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, did not respond to requests for comment, other than an automatically-generated response stating "legacy media lies". A government official stated that new laws is being proposed to prohibit image stripping software. Under a new law, anyone who distributed such tools would "face a prison sentence and heavy penalties". "The platform could prevent these forms of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences." Oversight Body Stance and Tool Capabilities The communications watchdog Ofcom said platforms must "assess the potential" of people viewing unlawful material on their networks, but did not specify whether it was at this time investigating X or Grok in concerning AI-generated images. Grok is a free chatbot—with some premium features—which answers X users' prompts when they reference it in a message. It is often used to provide reactions or additional background to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also capable of alter an uploaded picture through its artificial intelligence picture modification tool. History of Controversy and Policy The chatbot has been condemned for permitting users to produce images and footage with nudity and sexually suggestive content, and it was in the past accused of generating inappropriate material of public figures. "X has been permitting the creation and distribution of these pictures for months without taking any action and we have yet to see any intervention by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own terms of service bans "depicting images of persons in a sexually explicit way". In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "generate or distribute non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and clarified this covered explicit AI images generated with AI. It said platforms such as X were required to take "appropriate steps" to "minimize the risk" of users viewing unlawful material on their services and to delete it quickly when they are notified of it.