The social media network X has provoked significant anger after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to manipulate pictures of women by taking off their clothing.
Several examples have been seen where the system has been employed to remove clothing from female subjects to render them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to put them in sexualized scenarios.
Company Response and Regulatory Position
XAI, the firm that created Grok, offered no comment to inquiries, other than an standard message stating "traditional news outlets lies".
A Home Office spokesperson stated that new laws is being proposed to ban nudification tools. Under a proposed criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "be subject to a prison sentence and significant fines".
"The platform is capable of halting these forms of abuse if they wanted to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "operate with a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Position and Tool Capabilities
The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must "consider the danger" of people viewing illegal content on their networks, but did not confirm whether it was currently examining X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence images.
Grok is a no-cost chatbot—with some paid-for features—which reacts to X users' requests when they reference it in a tweet.
It is frequently used to give reactions or further context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also capable of modify an posted photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification feature.
History of Controversy and Rules
The tool has been condemned for permitting users to generate pictures and videos with explicit content and sexually suggestive content, and it was earlier accused of generating graphic material of celebrities.
"X has been permitting the creation and spread of these pictures for a long time without taking any action and we have not witnessed any action by regulators," the expert added.
XAI's own acceptable use policy forbids "showing images of persons in a sexually explicit way".
In a statement, Ofcom said it was against the law to "make or share deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and clarified this applied to sexual deepfakes generated with AI.
It said networks such as X were mandated to take "necessary measures" to "minimize the danger" of users viewing unlawful material on their platforms and to delete it swiftly when they learn of it.
