Elon Musk's online platform X has caused major outrage after people utilized its AI chatbot Grok to change images of females by taking off their clothing.
Multiple instances have emerged where the tool has been employed to digitally undress women to make them appear in bikinis without permission, as well as to put them in inappropriate scenarios.
Company Reaction and Legal Stance
XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, remained silent to requests for comment, aside from an auto-reply response stating "legacy media lies".
A government representative stated that legislation is being proposed to ban nudification tools. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who provided such technology would "face a jail term and significant fines".
"The platform is capable of halting these types of misuse if they wanted to," said a law professor, adding they "operate with impunity."
Regulator Position and Tool Functionality
The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must "consider the danger" of people seeing unlawful material on their services, but stopped short of confirming whether it was presently examining X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a no-cost artificial intelligence—with some premium features—which reacts to X users' prompts when they mention it in a message.
It is frequently used to give reactions or further background to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also can modify an posted image through its AI image editing tool.
History of Criticism and Policy
The system has been condemned for permitting users to produce photos and videos with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was earlier accused of creating graphic material of public figures.
"X has been enabling the generation and distribution of these pictures for a long time without taking any action and we have yet to see any challenge by regulators," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own terms of service bans "depicting images of individuals in a sexually explicit manner".
In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "generate or distribute non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and confirmed this covered explicit AI images created with AI.
It said networks such as X were mandated to take "suitable actions" to "reduce the danger" of users encountering illegal content on their platforms and to delete it promptly when they become aware of it.
