🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Alters Pictures of Females to Virtually Remove Their Clothes The online platform X has caused major backlash after individuals used its AI chatbot Grok to change images of females by removing their attire. Several examples have emerged where the technology has been employed to remove clothing from female subjects to make them appear in bikinis non-consensually, as well as to place them in sexually explicit contexts. Company Response and Legal Stance XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, offered no comment to inquiries, other than an standard message stating "traditional news outlets lies". A government representative stated that legislation is being proposed to outlaw image stripping tools. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who provided such tools would "be subject to a jail term and significant penalties". "X or Grok has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they desired to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences." Oversight Body Position and Tool Functionality The regulator Ofcom said technology companies must "assess the potential" of people viewing illegal content on their services, but did not specify whether it was at this time examining X or Grok in relation to artificial intelligence images. Grok is a no-cost artificial intelligence—with some premium functions—which reacts to X users' prompts when they reference it in a post. It is frequently used to provide commentary or further context to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also can modify an posted image through its artificial intelligence picture modification function. Background of Criticism and Policy The tool has been condemned for enabling users to create photos and footage with nudity and sexually suggestive material, and it was in the past accused of making inappropriate material of public figures. "The platform has been enabling the production and sharing of these images for a long time without taking any measures and we have yet to see any challenge by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own acceptable use policy forbids "showing images of people in a pornographic way". In a statement, Ofcom said it was illegal to "create or circulate deepfakes or illegal content" and clarified this applied to sexual deepfakes created with AI. It said platforms such as X were mandated to take "appropriate steps" to "lessen the danger" of users encountering illegal content on their platforms and to take down it swiftly when they learn of it.